Having blogged about this topic on my own blog, it is a topic most definitely close to my heart and to us here
at Girls in Tech. One of the first items on President Obama’s agenda was to create the White House’s Council on Women & Girls: a new committee established to “ensure that each of the agencies in which they’re charged takes into account the needs of women and girls in the policies they draft, the programs they create, the legislation they support” — And as Madeline Albright once said: the “responsibility for the advancement of women is not the job of any one agency, it’s the job of all of them.” Thus, it is the aim of this newly created committee to make sure that they’re doing that job right!
Officially stemming from the work of the post-Beijing Interagency Council and the White House Office for Women’s Initiatives and Outreach, I think this committee will also pave the way for other such organizations to have their causes heard. (The White House Project (http://www.thewhitehouseproject.org/) & AAUW (American Association of University Women) immediately come to mind.)
The Council’s chair is long-time Obama colleague and advisor Valerie Jarrett, with Tina Tchen serving as the Executive Director.
Find all the details here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cwg/
