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Wendy Davis

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first: 2016-05-02
most recent: 2016-05-02
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Yes. Well, It's deed's not words. These are words.com That's good. Good to hear you. We had our soft launch during South by the full website launch will be May 18th.”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And you use technology almost regularly. Well, again, your site is called, what is the URL? It's Deedsword.com.com. Oh, wow, you got that. That's good. Good for you. And it's launched. It has launched.”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We thought we were so much further than this in the year 2016 as a country and to see so many people responding as favorably and strongly as they have to that message Pretty remarkable”
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“He tapped into anger. I mean, he's George Wallace, you know, come alive again. He's tapped into people's anger and fear relative to race and gender. And it's a very powerful tool. Many politicians have employed it. They've been more subtle about it. He's just being much more overt. So in some ways it's sort of refreshing and it's honesty. At least we see it for exactly what it is. But it is disappointing to see it working.”
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“And proves to people that their $5 donations can really make a difference when they're added to hundreds and thousands of other donations that look like that. And I think that the values that are being pushed by young and not so young people and the Democratic primary have made both of these candidates better and forced them to be speaking to their values. And that's what's supposed to happen in democracy. I wish I could say the same for the Republican side of the aisle, but I'm very proud of the two candidates that are in this conversation. You make the phenomenon and the Democratic Republic.”
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“Because I'm an optimist, I imagine her becoming president. And I believe that to my core, that is what will happen. I think it's going to be a rough road along the way, but I know she's up to it. I think that Bernie Sanders being in the race has been extraordinarily good. I have tremendous admiration for him and his ideas, and I am thrilled to see how excited a lot of new voters have gotten about participating. It's exciting to see the dynamic that plays out”
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“Yeah, it's interesting. Maria Farway is head of the Harvey Mudd College, which is largely Focused organization at college. Really great technical college. And she's been sort of aiming at the men who shut women down. There's always a programmer who ruins it for everybody, not just women, but certain people who should be in the tech sector that aren't because they're turned off by a certain kind of mentality intake, which is interesting, which is, we know, which extends. I just am focused on it because it's the biggest employer. It's where all the jobs are. It's where things are happening. So when you look at this election, what do you imagine it's going to happen? I got to get a political expert compared to me.”
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“Of course, is where all the jobs are. Yes, I think we're doing a lot of our young girls in school helping to encourage them as they weren't encouraged before. But the problem is then they hit the marketplace and they run headlong into what can be often very surprising for them because they hadn't experienced it necessarily in their educational settings. And that's incumbent upon these employers to ensure their.”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I had the privilege of being both math smart and English smart. So that was nice, you know. And my father made me feel proud about that. He raised me to feel like that was something that was a big deal talking about these issues. Absolutely.”
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“Reminds me of coming home from school and crying and saying, I wish I weren't so smart. Of course, now we raise our young girls to be very, very proud of themselves when they're smart as we are. What were you mad smart? I actually had...”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'll do what I want. It was That was fairly interesting I said I was a nerd. I was at Wise Head. Just, you know, I was smart when I was in school. And it was at a time when being smart was not cool at all. For a girl, right? Yeah. And my mother.”
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“That can sometimes come around us. I like to engage. I think they're shocked by it. So I'm always like, I just actually right before I got on, someone didn't like my tone and a story I wrote. And I was like, oh, so nice to be lectured by you. You're not going to do what I want. It was very interesting, but it was a very lectury mantone, you know, that was really interesting. So to finish up, when you said you started off, you said you were a geek or a nerd, or one of them. Which one?”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Off of Twitter completely. Yeah, I stayed on it because I don't want to leave the conversation. I think they win when we leave the conversation. But I don't... Read their comments. I don't sit up at night worrying about all the different things that people said about an appearance I had or a statement that I made. I think we have to continue to be forceful in the things that we believe and fight for those things and put our head down and ignore the terrible noise that can sometimes come around us.”
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“That's just been violent. It's pretty nasty. So I have my own, you know, kind of survival tactics in that regard. I don't give much credence to it because I've built skin that's as thick as leather right now. But I have to separate myself from it sometimes. That's how I maintain a healthy approach. We had Leena Denham on it.”
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“I think I have been, and I think that providing training tools for young women on how to move through that successfully themselves is an important part of it, modeling how to do it is key, but also giving young women the skills and the resources to do it themselves. What have you done?”
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“You mean one of the things you did discuss is the social media does shut things down. It gets very ugly. We have an initiative called Hack Harassment, which is, I think, it's really quite astonishing the stuff that goes on online. Are you going to deal with that? Because that's something you'd be a target of it. You've been a target of it.”
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“Storytelling and the power of that. One of the ideas I have for our site is for very young women to tell the stories of much older women and vice versa to place ourselves in each other's shoes and to live through each other's stories what the experiences are like in each other's lives. Every one of us has a mother. Every one of us has a stake in women being treated fully and equally in this country. Most men who have daughters care very much about this through the lens of the experiences of their little girls. I think that's a powerful way to get at it”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But how do you do that? It's interesting because it's a much bigger and broader topic because there are so many different kinds of ways. It's a more difficult thing. I mean, I think what happened in the gay and lesbian areas, you know, you suddenly had these media depictions that were quite kind and good. And Ellen's so nice. Oh, those nice guys from modern family. Oh, that nice Anderson Cooper, isn't he so handsome? I mean, there was a lot of that around it, I think, comfort levels became different. And I'm not quite sure how you change it on a larger this is such a much bigger scale.”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I believe so strongly that part of why we succeeded in getting to where we are with LGBTQ equality in this country was we began to put a face on that issue and made it real and made it human and made people sit up and take notice of the fact that human beings were being impacted by this in very negative ways. We need to do the same thing for gender equality.”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For women to show that we will not be silenced by attempts to do so. When you look at conversations that go on on social media, there is such an effort to silence women going on there, threatening activities that occur. Bullying in the house. It can be so scary for young women. And what happens is it shuts down the conversation, right? We have got to show that we will not be quieted, we will not be silenced, we are going to continue with these conversations, and we're going to continue to call it out when we see it. It's the only way we're ever going to move the ball forward. But let's go back to storytelling for a moment too.”
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“This is what I fear for young women because I do get asked this question a lot too. You know, how do you handle that? What do you do when that's happening to you? I think it's up to women who are in leadership roles, whether it's in the private arena like Cheryl or in the public arena like Hillary.”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I know him. I wouldn't mean that I know him well. You know him better than I do. Yeah, I think because it layered on almost simultaneously with that, it created some real damage control. Was that good or bad? How do young people?”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, absolutely. You're absolutely right The white stuff about Ted Cruz, I know you probably know him well from your Texas. I know him. I wouldn't say that I know him well. You know him better than I do. But the stuff around his wife also, I think, got attention to. It was at the same time. Yeah.”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Cannot talk about punishment. You can call them bimbos. But what's fascinating about that, though, is I believe if it had just been people on the progressive side of the aisle who reacted to that comment, it wouldn't have had nearly the play or the impact. The reason it had play and impact was because the far right itself said, whoa, wait a minute, don't call it that because they know that that language around abortion and abortion rights is actually very harmful to their cause. So for them, this was about damage control for John Q Public's perception about what the abortion fight is all about. That's one of the reasons that that particular comment got so much attention. But think of so many of these other things that he's said and been engaged in as it comes to his body. I'm not sure the white stuff about Ted Cruz.”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Way that's not good for Donald Trump. Yes, as he talked about punishing women, you know, that obviously struck a chord. So you can say they're”
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“But what's interesting is that there has finally been a backlash in the political area around it, which I don't know if it will help or not, this recent spate of stuff that Donald Trump has said seems to have stuck in a way that's not good for Donald Trump.”
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“But when we went to those same people and asked them, can you give a comment on this? No, not touching it. And at one point, they said it's the third rail of technology. We're not going to talk about this issue because it only gets into trouble, which is really difficult because there's certain leaders like Cheryl Sandberg and others that tried to get the conversation going, but it's really, it still remains one that is a very dicey one to have. And I wouldn't say these people are, they use the term unconscious bias here in Silicon Valley, which means they don't mean it. I am against that term because I think it's very conscious. Yeah.”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was interesting here in Silicon Valley, we had a trial that was quite contentious. Ellen Powell is a gender discrimination trial. And what was interesting is at the same time, the anti-gay issues were going on in Indiana, and we could get any CEO to talk about that. They jumped to defend gay.”
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“Might have been very differently only even three or four years ago, but now our consciousness has come to a different place there. It is so still acceptable in the marketplace of conversation to demean women based on gender that we've got to do a better job of calling attention to it and making sure that we draw a line that says this is not interesting here.”
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“To do a lot of soul searching about, and we need to call it out more because it is almost so acceptable in the conversation that it goes unnoticed when it's happening. I watch with fascination what I see happening in the ways that Hillary Clinton is characterized and talked about some of the conversations going on on social media that have so much misogyny behind them, and yet we don't see the same kind of public outcry and response to that that we would if we inserted race instead or if we inserted sexual orientation now.”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But if I could go back and do it differently, I would because I think part of the power in changing the dynamic is to call it out when it's happening. I was watching that very first Republican debate when Megan Kelly was questioning Donald Trump and she asked him about some of his former comments about Rosie O'Donnell. And not only did he not apologize, but he doubled down on them. And the camera panned the audience. People were laughing and applauding. Women were laughing and applauding. And I was horrified as I watched it thinking that we are part of our own problem, that in less than until we as women say, that's not acceptable. You know, we may disagree about each other's political positions and ideologies, but the idea that we would ever find it acceptable for women to be demeaned as part of the public conversation, I think is something we really need.”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I can just tell you in my gubernatorial election, I certainly felt the sting of gender inequity. And yet, when I was asked by the press, do you feel like you're being treated differently because you're a woman? I answered no, and I answered no because I was afraid of coming across as a victim.”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Deeds, not words. Now, what's interesting is this election has been about that. It's a really interesting, it's coming to California. The primaries are coming to California very soon. And that's sort of been a big issue, largely because of really horrible things. One of the candidates, Republican candidate Donald Trump has made about women, and it's become a big issue. Let me get your take. You're a big political person. How do you look at this election?”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Thanks, Jason Delray, to apply for an invitation to the first Code Commerce event in Las Vegas, visit Rico.net slash events. That's Code Commerce Conference May 17th in Las Vegas. More information at recode.net slash events. We're here with former Texas State Senator Wendy Davis, who's here on an initiative to create a site that will bring millennials into the discussion about gender equality, correct? Yeah.”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To do that Has to be very careful. So, what you're saying is, I need to hire a 12 year old surround my snack. Something 13 is okay. 14.”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Got to Snapchat. I'm going to move into the Snapchat arena. We're talking about what that will look like as part of our platform right now.”
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“I'm in the fundraising mode right now. Anyone who's listening with donate, we are fiscally sponsored by a 501c3 organization, so we are a nonprofit taking charitable donations for it. But I really believe in the power of this work. And I believe in the opportunity and the privilege that I have to speak to an audience of young women and to help mentor them.”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And the reality of how we fix them. I think it begins with making sure that we put experiences on the table so that people understand the very real human impacts behind them. But I also think Some of the most successful efforts in the political arena come about when we understand our own self-interest in fixing them, right? And these issues for women's equality, creating true opportunity for women, both at the educational level, making sure they have the support that they need for affordable quality childcare, making sure that we have appropriate family leave policies and pay policies, making sure that women have reproductive rights because without them we cannot control our economic destinies. All of that is a part of equalizing opportunity.”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. To go back to something I said a moment ago, I believe so strongly in the power of storytelling. Taking these issues out of the abstract so many times we hear these statistics. Two-thirds of women make up minimum wage earners in this country. A third of those are mothers. We know the statistic that 70% of women are those who make up the sub minimum wage level for tipped workers, for example. We know that women are earning 79% to a man's dollar and it's even lower for women of color 65 cents to a man's dollar. We know all of those statistics. We know that that's not a world that we want to live in. Those of us who are progressive. And yet we haven't made a connection to those numbers.”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In the presidential contest. Is right now Let's talk about that gender equality. It's something you've always been interested in for a long time. It's a big issue here in Silicon Valley. What do you imagine to be some of the solutions? I mean, we obviously know the problems. There's pay equity. There's all kinds of memes that people live in that they don't realize they're doing. What do you imagine the biggest issues are in creating, you know, even in tech, which is considered the most tolerant of the numbers are just astonishing. 70% all boards and 80% numbers are as if it's like an old car maker from the 1920s. It feels really odd, primarily white at the same time.”
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“They have so much power. We're seeing them use that power right now in the presidential contest. Bernie Sanders wouldn't be where he was right now without that. So I hope that that's going to create a lifelong legacy of people who will stay involved.”
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“Midterm cycle, even though in those midterms we are electing state legislatures that are deciding things that are so important and impactful in the area of gender equality, how do we help to inspire young women not just to get active as an advocate on an issue that they care about, but to Then become that next group of people who are going to rule and run the world. By 2020, millennials will be forty percent of the total voting population in this country.”
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“The same can be said of Black Lives Matter. That started as a hashtag, a communication device, but it led to unbelievable and impactful activism. So for me, this disconnect that sometimes exists with the hashtagism, with the conversations that are going on in social media and the connection to the action is what I hope to be a part of creating a connection for meeting young women where they are. This is their marketplace. This is where they're talking. This is where they're gaining their ideas and inspiration and helping to provide some toolkits for them to take that conversation to a concrete action stat because I believe just as I was once inspired as an advocate for something that I cared about to then become a lifelong voter, a person who ran for office myself, I believe that this disconnect that we sometimes see with young women, for example only twenty three percent of eligible millennial voters voted in the twenty fourteen.”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In some ways, I think that's true. I think if you go back to the day of the filibuster, it's the perfect example of how a hashtag is an important part of leading to activism, right? The same could be said. What was your hashtag?”
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“on a project of their choosing where we help them put together a toolkit to advance whatever that project looks like for them, connecting them to resources that are available to them to help them get that project. So there's a lot of initiatives.”
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“And I have an opportunity to help connect young women to so many terrific organizations that are happening. So part of this is a clearinghouse to connect them to this, but also a place for them to come and meet each other, to share stories. I believe so strongly in the power of storytelling, and to meet mentors and to receive inspiration and guidance on ways that they can get involved. That's the digital hub piece of it. We'll also be doing a weekly newsletter where we're going to curate content that we hope will be very inspirational and provocative for them. And we will be highlighting each week a changemaker in the world, another young person who's doing extraordinary things in their own way to hope to inspire others to do the same. And then I'm creating in this first”
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“And to receive tools and ideas about how they can plug in as I travel around the country and speak to groups so many times I'm asked by young women what do we do they're so passionate but they need some connection some way of connecting their passion to an action step and that's really where the idea So one of the things I discovered as I began to think about what I was going to do next, I was looking around in the gender equality space who's doing what and I found that even though I considered myself a leader in that area, I didn't know about so many of these organizations. There are fabulous number of them doing amazing work. I have this great megaphone. I have a wonderful following with young women around the country.”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I've just launched a new initiative, as you talked about at the top of the show, Deeds Not Words. It borrows a motto that was used in the suffragette movement in the early 1900s. Women were tired of hearing talk about getting the right event. They wanted action. And that's where we are today. You know, we're tired of talk. There's so many areas where we still have”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. Tech I hope to see that. And I think because of the strong tech presence that we will see more of it. And I'm very proud to say that Fort Worth-based American Airlines, for example, has been very prominent in pushing back against some of these discriminatory legislative actions. And the more we see private companies stepping up to the plate and pushing back on that, and it's not just this lonely battle of people trying to fight their city halls or state legislatures, it really is going to be the key thing that helps so it's really.”
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“The social measures. I mean, what's happening in North Carolina and Georgia tech has been very vocal about not locating there. And it's, of course, one of the biggest industries, the most promising industry. It's something that I wonder if Texas moves in that direction, especially around a range of social issues. I certainly...”
2016-05-02 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT