Halla Tómasdóttir 1: A feminine response to Iceland's financial crash

                            

TED 2010

Halla Tómasdóttir 1: A feminine response to Iceland's financial crash (transcript)

Summary

We may be mistaken about genuine equality. Our world, you expect a different outcome though you do the same things over and over.  The speaker tells us that it isn't like women and men have just the same opportunities. Women and men are not the same and it's great because of our differences, thus we can create and sustain life. We should embrace our differences and aim for challenges.  

We are always forced that we have to choose either men or women though we need to start embracing the beauty of balance.

The speaker and her friend founded a financial firm named Audur Capital to incorporate feminine values into the world of finance. They got through the economic collapse hit in their country Iceland. The reasons were that the female trend meant female value and its sustainability trend just worked. This is not about women being better than men. It means that there are differences between women and men, it brings different values and different ways, and we find them out. It leads to having diversity around the decision-making table.

So we need this to change the world and to create sustainable future.

Words in this story

feminine / having qualities or appearance traditionally associated with women, especially delicacy and prettiness

diligence /noun/ careful and persistent work or effort.

tyranny /noun/ totalitarianism totalitarian /adj/

philanthropy / charity, humanitarianism