Howard Wolfson, co-chief strategist and communications director for Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign who now works for Bloomberg and is watching this one from the sidelines observes,  "There was no equivalent of a show like Girls with a frank depiction of what it means to be female," he said. "There was no young woman carrying around the mattress at Columbia talking about issues of sexual violence, no Sheryl Sandberg pointing out that women are perceived differently when it comes to leadership, no Amy Schumer with a pop comedy show devoted to exposing sexism in the workplace and society. There is much more space for a conversation around gender discrimination and gender equality and just plain gender."

 

 

So to emphasize, now is the right time for STA WIF to be happening. We are doing this during a time in which it is commonplace to see like-minded gestures.