WOMEN ON THE PODIUM

This week we witnessed a moment that deserves a step back. On Wednesday night, at the State of the Union address, we watched as the Vice President and the Speaker of the House—both women—met behind the dais on the house floor to hear Biden's speech to congress.

This was the first time in our almost 255-year history that the image wasn't a familiar one. It was the first time in our history that there were more women than men on that dais. 

When I marched in Washington in January of 2016, I saw a woman holding a sign that said "How are we still having to protest this shit?"  She was easily in her 60s.  The repetitive nature of any resistance movement is meant to exhaust the revolutionary. Turning over thousands of years of patriarchy isn't going to happen overnight or over a generation.  So, I don't look at that podium this week with rose-colored glasses. I still ask myself: How could it have possibly taken us this long to get here? And, how many years might pass before it happens again?  

But first, we celebrate and cherish the win.  And then, in the words of Beyoncé, we get in formation.  

Because if you ask me when there will be enough women on the podium? Well, to paraphrase the Notorious RBG: When it's all women.  

—Shayne Fiske Goldner, EVP Physical Production