“It’s not just about all the women that empowered me to be my best self… Even though this is a women’s conference, the men out there need to be acknowledged.”—Soccer’s goal-scoring legend Abby Wambach addressed 9,000 attendees on October 6, 2016 at the annual PA Conference for Women in Philadelphia
“When I started working at The Office, there were almost no shows on TV with female leads. And since then, in 10 years, there’s Veep, there’s Broad City, there’s Parks & Recreation, there’s 30 Rock. All my favorite shows have female leads.”—Actor, director, producer and author Mindy Kaling in conversation with Lesley Jane Seymour, former editor of MORE and creator of Kindred.community, in front of 9,000 attendees on October 6, 2016 at the annual Pennsylvania Conference for Women
“There are direct business costs associated with harassment…Ending harassment is everybody’s business.”—Civil rights champion, author and Brandeis University professor Anita Hill, speaking at the opening keynote session of the 2016 PA Conference for Women
“It’s really thanks to you that I even have the vocabulary to have this conversation.”—Annie Clark, co-founder and executive director of the national non-profit End Rape On Campus (EROC) and inspiration for documentary The Hunting Ground, speaking at the opening keynote session of the 2016 PA Conference for Women
“As I started studying peoples’ success in the workplace, there were three things that really mattered: hard work, talent, luck. But then there was a fourth factor that most of us overlooked, which was the way we interact with other people.” —Adam Grant, best-selling author, business management thought leader and the Wharton School’s top-rated professor, speaking at the opening keynote session of the 2016 PA Conference for Women