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Rebecca Greenfield

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Equality @business // co-host of The Pay Check, Works For Me Trying out Letterboxd as a Twitter replacement

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@rzgreenfield
Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
Companies need diverse workforces for EXACTLY this reason -- people with differing viewpoints can spot potential problems. And yet, as is often the case, companies decide to ignore their "diverse" staffs -- to their peril.
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
Single, childless, and rich. Can we get a DINK-esque acronym for this??
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@rzgreenfield
Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
Women at the top are leaving their jobs at the highest rate ever recorded by Lean In/Mckinsey. One of the main drivers of the gender pay gap is how few women hold high paying jobs. This will make that much worse.
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
For no particular reason, here is what data from the Census Bureau shows people are actually using the child tax credit payments for: Mostly debt, food. Not... drugs.
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
To this point, within a few hours in July, Scott made back the $2.6 billion (and more) that she'd given away in June.
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Peter Daou
3 years
Nobody should have EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS to give away (and still be a billionaire). Relying on the handouts of billionaires is not justice. 100% #WealthTax over $10 million net worth is how we start making things right.
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
OBSESSED with this project. For the last year+, we've been on a mission to make data about U.S. company workforce demographics public. Now have detailed race, ethnicity, gender info from 76 (!!) of the biggest public co.s.
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
WOWOWOW The Pay Check is Adweek's podcast of the year!!!! SUPER honored that all of our hard work is being recognized. CONGRATS TO US
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
Wow another Life Goal achieved this week: Getting an abortion story on the cover of a national magazine.
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Businessweek
2 years
NEW COVER: The abortion pill is safer than Tylenol and almost impossible to get. Mifepristone could—but probably won’t—revolutionize a post-Roe world
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
Take the US Supreme Court — the nation's most powerful judicial body — as an example. Of the nine justices, seven received undergraduate degrees from Ivy League schools, and only one got a law degree from somewhere other than Harvard or Yale.
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
When we started, after George Floyd's murder, we only got data from 25 companies. This is progress! Also, TO BE CLEAR, is it the ONLY way to hold companies accountable to pledges to increase diversity at the top. We'll keep holding them to that.
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
In 2020, there were at least 40 (!) anti-trans health-care bills proposed in US statehouses controlled by Republicans. These kinda of laws were p much non-existent before this year.
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
I know there's a lot of stuff going on in the world today but don't sleep on this story about how even very successful police reform models are hard to maintain by @FolaAk For @BW and @amandakhurley 's Cities issue:
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Rebecca Greenfield
7 months
In 2021, the first full year after George Floyd's murder and the BLM protests, 88 S&P 100 companies added more than 300,000 jobs -- 94% of those went to people of color.
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
Ask a bunch of CEOs why they're so attached to the office, and you'll get the same answer: CuLtURe My deep dive for @BW on why that's a misguided fear.
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Rebecca Greenfield
1 year
Congrats to the Pay Check team @business and me!
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@rzgreenfield
Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
Ok, I think we've got it. She's SWANK Single woman, affluent, no kids. Cue the trend stories.
@rzgreenfield
Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
Single, childless, and rich. Can we get a DINK-esque acronym for this??
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
The woman convincing companies like Facebook to let her give them a brutally honest assessment of how racist their products and policies are. Great profile by @NaomiNixWrites
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Rebecca Greenfield
1 year
Former students are alleging that this year's Nobel Prize winner in economics sexually harassed them. The school has questioned the professor and at least three women. @fxy2014 and David Kocieniewski have this very big SCOOP
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
NEW PAY CHECK EP !! So we all know about the (unfortunately named) "She-cession," well it was perhaps worse nowhere in the world than in India. The labor force participation for women there HALVED during the pandemic, and still hasn't recovered.
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
What's happening to girls around the world during this pandemic is highly upsetting
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Rebecca Greenfield
7 months
A three year project gets a tweet.
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
The abortion pill has been a revolution unfulfilled for as long as it's been available in the U.S. Almost 80% of adults don't know it exists ! @CynthiaLKoons in @BW on its life in obscurity and how new FDA rules aren't going to set it free.
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Rebecca Greenfield
7 months
Back in 2020, Bloomberg started collecting data companies usually keep private on their workforce diversity. Many were making promises to hire and promote more Black people and others from underrepresented group. We finally have enough data to see how they're doing.
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
With yet another horrific and high profile crime against an Asian person in the NYC area, find a little solace, inspiration, and hope from @minjinlee11
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
🚨 VACCINE DEMOGRAPHIC TRACKER UPDATE DAY 🚨 A mini vaccination surge has followed the rise of the Covid delta variant in the U.S., especially among Black and Hispanic Americans living in hard hit states.
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
In total, almost a quarter of Ukraine’s population may be rendered homeless by the war, making it the biggest single-country disruption after the Syrian refugee crisis of the past decade. Amazing work from @BBGVisualData on the unfolding refugee crisis
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
Oh looky here, @JeffAGreen and I are on A LIST! Pats selves on back.
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
@operativewords ooh SWNK pronounced SWANK is VERY GOOD.
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Rebecca Greenfield
7 months
Yes, a lot of that growth was in less-senior roles, but we also saw a lot happening at the executive and manager level. There's a lot going on. you can read more about the trend and our findings here:
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
File this under a sign of the times: Multiple major U.S. employers are creating a brand new abortion benefit to cater to employees who live in states with increasingly restrictive laws. @itskelseybutler has the scoop.
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
🚨 DEMOGRAPHIC VACCINE TRACKER UPDATE DAY 🚨 This month is a biggie! We updated our tracker with the latest 2020 census figures released a few weeks ago and there were two major findings:
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
🚨 VACCINE DEMOGRAPHIC UPDATE DAY 🚨 This week we decided to look at the states where Delta is surging and which groups are least likely to be vaccinated in those states. Here's what we found:
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
Some bittersweet news, this will be the last update of our vaccine demographic tracker. It comes with a beautiful new map that shows the best and worst states for vaccine equity, care of @rachaeldottle
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
Look who's back.... The Pay Check podcast! We're launching our 4th (!!!!) season next week. This year we're digging into global wealth inequality. It's a doozy. Listen to our trailer here and subscribe to make sure you don't miss an ep!
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
You can compare the companies to each other and to their broader industries. McDonald’s Corp. is one of the few that performs well in most major racial categories and in the representation of women in its executive ranks. Check it all out here:
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
Our annual @BW Equality Issue starts rolling out today!!! This year, we asked: What comes after a reckoning? After the 2020 BLM protests, we saw a lot of soul searching on racism + inequality. So what came of all that accounting?
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
🚨 VACCINE DEMOGRAPHIC TRACKER MONTHLY UPDATE DAY 🚨 One place SUPER stood out in this month's update: NYC made big moves vaccinating Black and Hispanic people; pretty much nowhere else moved the needle.
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Rebecca Greenfield
1 year
"Diversity, equity and inclusion can’t be a thing that you only do when times are good"
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
Super excited to have @_marybiekert with @bbgequality for the next few months. Less than a day on the job and she's already pumping stories out!
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@rzgreenfield
Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
Alright, who wants to talk to me about GOING BACK TO THE OFFICE? Particularly interested in talking to those making the decisions to bring people back or not. Want to get inside your heads, plz. DMs open, per usual. Ty!!!
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
@conorsen unless youre a young woman who might ever want an abortion that is!
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
I have been covering Sheryl Sandberg, on and off, since I was a baby blogger, so I was Contractually Obligated to write about her leaving Meta/Facebook.
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
It's Pay Check day! Episode 2 is a good news/surprise story: This week we look at the U.S., where inequality actually... improved?? During the pandemic, the wealth of the bottom 50% went up ! How? Why? Cold. Hard. Cash.
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
THIS. STORY. @clairesuddath on what's happening with maternal health in the US. “I walked into the hospital and was like, ‘I’m in labor.’ They’re like, ‘Labor and delivery is closed.’ I was like, ‘What? Is that legal?’ ”
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
I constantly have friends texting me asking me about parental leave benefits in their industry, so that they can make a case to their bosses for more time off. Reminder: U.S. is one of the only rich countries with NO paid federal leave for new parents.
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Mary Childs
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IT'S FINALLY HERE!! I'm so so excited about this project that just published at @qz . Here is a thread about how it came about and what it means. w @ThisisVanjani
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
PAY CHECK FINALE!!!! Eight weeks, seven countries, a dozen reporters, nine editors, and one amazing producer later: THAT'S A WRAP ON SEASON FOUR. For our last episode, we head to Spain to see if there's a better way to do ~All This~
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
The reality of crime in NYC is VERY DIFFERENT than the perception of my neighbors who keep saying things "just feel scarier." Homicides, for example, are at 2009 levels. What's changed? Media coverage is way up. Great story by @FolaAk and @raeedahwahid
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
Dang, our competitors sure wrote a lot of good stories this year. Check out the annual @BW Jealousy List.
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Rebecca Greenfield
1 year
Ok we need to start lily tomlins 80 for Brady Oscar campaign so we can get her to EGOT. LETS GOO
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Hugh McIntyre
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I could watch beloved actresses forget what awards they have all day.
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Rebecca Greenfield
10 months
So when affirmative action arguments started last fall, we published this story on how it will absolutely crush the corporate diversity pipeline, which is true. But, it will also do another thing vis-a-vis race and higher ed and companies, imo...
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Rebecca Greenfield
1 year
We millennials just cannot quit our AIM habits Chart from here:
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
When MacKenzie Scott announced ANOTHER multi-billion giveaway in June, I had some Qs! Mainly: How is she leaving her mark? @sooo__phie @saviyonah and @dataviz_szuyu indulged me, delivering the largest accounting of Scott’s record year of giving to date:
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
Bloomberg is circulating this story I wrote 7 years ago and it's still making people very uncomfortable! I stand by my take: Liberate yourself from email sign offs for good! Yes, it's a power move, and yes it feels amazing.
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"Best" is actually the worst way to end your emails
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
SIREN: The Pay Check Season 4 is here!! We're digging into how the pandemic effected global economic inequality. In ep 1, the AMAZING @BSteverman walks us through the surprising way things have played out around the world.
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
How Eric Adams won the NYC mayoral primary: A coalition of Black and low-income neighborhoods. Garcia, on the other hand, dominated white, rich NYC. Cool viz by @bbgequality
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
Excited about this!!
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Mark Stenberg
3 years
New this morning: @bbgequality and @EBONYMag have announced a year-long partnership. The collaboration hopes to cross-pollinate the two audiences through original content, brand exposure initiatives and custom reports. My latest for @Adweek :
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Rebecca Greenfield
1 year
Man jokes about oral sex, everyone lols. Woman jokes about how banks seem to be run only by white bald men: "The management team was furious with the remarks"
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
This goes for the entire @bbgEquality crew !
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Kelsey Butler
2 years
PSA: There's no need to twist yourself in knots to pitch me something pegged to a day or month. I write about Black people after February, women after March 8 and other underrepresented groups all year round. It's either interesting or it isn't! 💫
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
"Reeves, who recently started hauling waste in Portland, says she got so many job interviews after finishing trucking school in June that she felt like 'the trash princess.'" By @saviyonah with her first byline in @BW
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
Don't sleep on this @clairesuddath joint on the messed up world of child care in the U.S. and what Build Back Better would -- and wouldn't -- do to fix it.
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
NEW PAY CHECK EPISODE! This week, we head to Mexico, where President AMLO put the economy before everything else. The results, particularly for pregnant women, were disastrous. @itskelseybutler reports:
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
That's our little @BBGEquality podcast/docuseries about economic inequality, btw. The docuseries was nominated, SO COOL!!!
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@rzgreenfield
Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
We looked at over 400 jobs at major NYC employers and found that many listings had salary ranges where the minimum pay was ~HALF the maximum pay. 🧐🧐🧐 Great analysis by @JeffAGreen @annerquaye @fxy2014 and
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
Related: South Korea is paying people more cash monies to have babies
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
Ooooh, lol, so "quiet quitting" is just better marketing for the ole "employee engagement" surveys I've been pitched for the last 10 years
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Rebecca Greenfield
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You think humans are biased? AI is way worse. An amazingly clear visualization of how generative AI programs stereotype in majorly bad ways.
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
And one last thing, you can read all about the ~process~ in this week's @bbgEquality newsletter by @JeffAGreen -- who is the heart and soul behind this project.
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
NEW PAY CHECK EP: This week we head to Kenya with @JillFilipovic who takes us through a shadow pandemic tearing through developing nations.
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
Good morning! Once again @BBGEquality is hiring! This time, in the UK. You get to work with me, which is cool, and also @OliviaGKA who rules and a bunch of other nice/smart people. So, id say it's a pretty sweet gig check it out! apply! tell yr frienz!
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
We are, once again, hiring! This time, in London. It's a sweet gig in one of the nicest BBG offices, imo. Apply here:
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
After Michael Brown, Cincinnati was held up as THE model of police reform. @BW literally ran a profile on the CPD called "Building a Better Police Department." Read on to find out what happened and what it means for reform v defund.
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
A coalition of big brand name companies pledged to hire and promote 1 million Black workers. One year in, it's created just 21,000 jobs... lil scoop from @JeffAGreen
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
Special thanks to the entire team, including @gdicarli @FrancescaToday @rakshitasaluja and @JPaskin for yet another great Pay Check season. + @mckdekuyper and @margaretsuther for getting people to pay attention to us. And to @balbi_danielle for her work on this last ep.
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
🚨 VACCINE DEMOGRAPHICS UPDATE 🚨 Was too soon for us to tell what approval of Pfizer 💉 for younger kids in U.S. will mean for racial vaccine gaps, but Texas is prob the canary in the coal mine
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Rebecca Greenfield
3 years
In all seriousness, @business has been doing this reporting for much longer than most outlets. Jeff's been on this beat for ~5 years, and our expertise shows. Follow @bbgequality for all your D&I and other Equality coverage.
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
Some news you may have missed in our abortion pill feature in @BW this week: Major retail pharmacies (CVS, Walgreens) are not committing to stocking the abortion pill, despite FDA changes that would allow them to do so.
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
Some pretty radical stuff happening in New Mexico!
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Gabrielle Coppola
2 years
New Mexico is using the money from its oil and gas boom to fund free college and child care via @BW
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Rebecca Greenfield
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
i have finally accomplished one of my Life Goals, to coin a term Threekonism /ˈTHrēkˌnizəm/ noun When boards have three women (out of 10 people), they feel like they're diverse enough.
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Rebecca Greenfield
2 years
Sandy Morris is amazing. @esmedeprez is amazing. This story is amazing.
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