Yesterday I joined in the inagural Travel+SocialGood Summit, part of the +SocialGood initiative headed by the UN Foundation, UNDP, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Case Foundation & Mashable. The conference took a broad look at places where travel, technology, and social good collide, and where there's an opportunity for scalable positive impact.
My breakout session on women and gender lens in this nexus of social good turned into a more general (interesting) discussion on women in politics and positions of power, women as heads of family (and how they spend their money, as opposed to men of the family) and the female tendency toward careers and roles that are social, connected, and people-centric (ok, that was me, reading from Dr. Louann Brizendine's The Female Brain).
Favorite takeaway: Mamahope's Stop the Pity: Unlock the Potential
Campaign, video below. I might've teared up, just a little (again, see Dr. Brizendine's book for reasons...). Sometimes solutions to issues and challenges are complicated, but they can be simple too. We're so much more informed and ultimately connected, thanks to technology, and a little pre-vacation research could go a long way.
