The Butterfly Effect with Catharine MacKinnon

Equality seakers spread your wings! Under the right conditions, small simple actions in a collective context can produce large complex effects and change. Pioneering lawyer and activist for women’s rights Catharine A. MacKinnon argues that seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural transformations.

Watch Catharine MacKinnon, lawyer and activist, in our latest RSA Spotlight - the edits which take you straight to the heart of the event! Loved this snippet? Watch the full talk here. 

Substantive Equalty, Multidimensional Political Thinking, Principled Creativity, Inspired Intervention, Open debates on strategy, old and new forms of organizing. 

Catharine A. MacKinnon is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at Michigan Law and the long-term James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She holds a BA from Smith College, a JD from Yale Law School, and a PhD in political science from Yale. She specializes in sex equality issues under international and domestic (including comparative, criminal, and constitutional) law. 

Published on Dec 29, 2016

Published on Dec 19, 2016

The Women Grow, Cultivating Cannabis Leadership Conference,  in Portland, Oregon.

Published on May 2, 2016

What does it take for women to succeed in the cannabis industry? Part 2, Part 1 here.

We talked to three respected women in Oregon cannabis, and learned a few things. 

Confidence, a strong mind, passion and knowledge are key. Along with a healthy respect for the advocates and activists who got us here. Also, a deep and abiding love for the plant. When we focus away from her, things start to go awry, and they also become a lot less fun. 

Big thanks to:

Samantha Montanaro, Prism House Pdx, Lindsey Corey, Dream Catcher Groves, and Kathryn Darby.  SmuggleVision is sponsored by SmugglePDX.

Published on May 2, 2016

Women in the UK fall behind in terms of gender parity as they enter adulthood, the workforce, or become parents, but change can come by focusing on several priority areas.

Learn more here.

Published on Sep 29, 2016

Talks at Google has uploaded Betty Soskin: "Of Lost Conversations: Opportunity and Discrimination..." Published on Sep 15, 2016

See the results from our LeanIn.Org and McKinsey Women in the Workplace 2015 survey - insights from 118 large companies and nearly 30,000 employees. Published on Apr 11, 2016 by McKinsey & Company.  For more information go here.

Women in the Workplace is a comprehensive study of the state of women in corporate America. The study is part of a long-term partnership between LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company to encourage female leadership and foster gender equality in the workplace.

One hundred eighteen companies and nearly 30,000 employees participated in this 2015 study, building on similar research conducted by McKinsey & Company in 2012.

This video series captures moving and thoughtful reflections from the biennial Geography of Hope gathering in Point Reyes Station, California. Dr. Kimmerer's presentation is around the theme, "Mapping a New Geography of Hope: Women and the Land."Published on

Jul 27, 2015

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