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[Music]

I want to ask you for an hour and for a

second close the loving eyes door

let’s imagine that power is a person

what power is a human being and I want that

imagine how you wear power and with the

first image that you have your mind

they can open their eyes

first thing first that comes to me

mind will ask you to complete

honesty let’s raise our hands

people that the first image image

we imagine man normally when

this exercise as happened today a

80% people first we

we imagine is a man with sack and

tie the other says I coppel the

lemon and nothing and man in boots and

with another type of clothing but valerón

or why this happens

this has to do with the way

that educate us that do not socialize we see

the media and usually

we see more men as experts of

different topics we go to a park and the

public space the statue is usually

of a man

we speak in masculine and we are

accustomed and many times not even

we feel excluded when

simply speak male and everything

this makes power in our

unconscious be a man now what

about what power a unconscious

a man to men affects them

very much because it becomes a burden to

a mandate to masculinity that

a man should be able to do everything and the

power and should be able to solve it alone

and you should not need help and for

women also affects us because we

teaches that we can not exactly

do everything ok certain spaces that do not

they are for us although we have to

show more we can put

this whole concept I thought I already

violated he had completely handled

because I already have approximate

ten years working the theme generated

then I’m ready until it does

exactly one year I get the

Panelists invited to the

annual meeting of the world economic forum

which is one of the meetings but the most

important with global youth that brings together

to leaders around the world and I get the

invitation and I knew emotionally not what

I could believe that he starts to count the

people obviously theirs to facebook and

everyone is giving the jce and

sharing and congratulating them super

excited

two weeks later I get another email

and in this other email they tell me that in the

panel I will exhibit together with san fermin

or beit that is winner of two oscars and

several emmys and that messed up that I law

in Palestine to protect the rights

of women and christine lagarde that

the sixth most powerful woman in the world and

the director of the monetary fund

international

there my attitude changed completely and

was what the fuck that this side over there

this universal art because I put it in

facebook and stay well but see and I

began to feel chiquitita chiquitita

little girl and I started doing it because

may have done that was I studied myself

all the interviews videos of them

all articles all impacts

what they had done and I started comparing myself

I have not done enough at the same time

I do not have anything interesting to

say along with her like I think I’m going

to tell me along with them that they have

done so much when I have not done

nothing in comparison and I really started

to feel terrible

I remember when the first panel arrived

that for the sake of the first panel does not touch me

with this is already the second and I see the chair

with my name and I felt that if I no longer

I belonged and and sat on like me

I did not want to sit there and it ‘s the first

panel mobile usa as experience

I do not know how it was because today

I dared to watch video the video I have not

seen from Spain but it was horrible

because they had as a teacher settled in

that chair one that was the one that was

giving the purchase

and the other one that is criticizing everything

that the other without you said all

That’s the bass and I had such a bad time

it does not just waste one of the

best opportunities of my life not in

terms of performance and if not in a

enjoyment term because really

how many times we have this opportunity and

I was so angry with myself that

he filled the second one I’m going to enjoy

although the second is much more

threatening because there are those who

they shoot in all the insecurity but neither

I will enjoy it for me not for the

other people

in this second plan and I dared

really do myself and up

share how I felt about being

exhibiting together with christine lagarde

came in next to me points the

vice president another country etcetera and for

my surprise

there you can see this one christina is left

that these and listening to me I realized

which was not myself were not only not

enough but really valuable

equally refreshing equally

interesting later in this experience

I had the opportunity to attend a

lunch with generous Merkel has been of

facebook that the seventh woman more

powerful of the world and in that animal

dead also exposed judra martín and

which is the Syrian refugee who with 17

years swam up grace saving the life

18 people in a boat and then competed

in the Olympics and there he was crying

saying that many times again the

seventh most powerful woman in the world

saying that many times she felt

as an impostor as a fraud because

she had created a link that was a

movement for empowerment of

women and many times she did not even

I wanted to get out of bed

after his wife died and this one

help saying that she really felt

guilty of being there when there was another

lot of refugees who had

done great things that because she is

in Switzerland

and I realized that it was not just me

we want all of them regardless of

level dependently the cubicle and it’s

that we start to see reality and

although sometimes we feel that the subject

gender equality is advancing advances

very slow and advances little we see the

number of women

if you from the thousand largest companies

of the world and we have gone from 2014 to

have 51 women yes or yes to 2007 354

nothing

again nothing we see the plain and

people that is the forum report

global economic crisis where coast

rich has been losing points in the

economic incorporation women in

the 2006 we were at number 89

and in 2016 in position 105 of 144

105 countries of 144 countries

it’s definitely not a lack issue

capacity

that is more than proven and loving

we see in the data of costa rica the

last years what is the titles

university students are increasingly

hands of women from 2009 to 2012 on 63

percent the people who got aggravated

the university were women

then definitely when we

we think about what these ceilings are

of crystal these invisible barriers that

they are not allowing women

we get there up there are many

many risk factors in the

personnel recruitment processes

that for saying we are moving forward with the

labor procedural reform

we have this issue of evaluation of

performance where there are biases we have

leadership stereotyping of we tend

to believe that leadership is what it is

typically masculine and where we give

certain dances to women and others to

the men within the companies

but there is another very very important

another very important that is even more

imperceptible more invisible

and is that the data show that the

women trust less in ourselves

compared to men and me

it was the experience they have given me to realize

that I was not the only one who felt

like in the chair and ken and it was not the only

that cost me nothing had been done

enough to be there

studies show for example one

the united kingdom they ask men and

women who are so confident with their

profession

only half of women affirm

feel safe with their profession

while two thirds of men

he says he feels confident things with his

profession

this causes for example that women

we negotiate four times less than

mens

when we have our first job

about 7% women

we negotiate our first salary this

we say thank you very much to what we

offer while a 56 percent

men and negotiate their first salary

and when we dare to negotiate

we ask 30 percent less than

men so that a woman applies a

promotion position an opportunity

we only apply and we have 100

percent the requirements for the position

while in men and you have 50 for

percent the requirements fried demand

men have then to

overestimate their capabilities and their

performance and women tend to their

value to our capabilities and our

I perform this perfectionism that we

we demand we do it because we believe that

the way to guarantee success and

prevent failure but away from

help us ensure success what

many times you make us for smooth and

it does not stop from achieving the objective

I will not raise my hand and I will not

ask the question that has all the

complete information

I’m not going to ask for the promotion until there’s

that will show you the fatigue that I

I deserve

I ‘m not going to send the report until I

I have read a thousand times how difficult it is only

complicated that the evidence proves

that really to achieve success and

achieving the objectives is much more

important the trust that the

competition and the people who achieve

cosos sport self-confidence no

precisely because of competition

competition can be acquired in the

path

but trust what is the engine that

drives us or that does not stop the

Telling you a little from this lunch

something happened to me that really impressed me

that was that a lady in this lunch

with hero the cure to know me I know myself

I was on his panel yesterday where he

exposed with cristina and I wanted to tell

that’s how it feels from having to

keep pace of Christine Lagarde

probably feels another woman

his pair

this probably the christine lagarde

imas and joe that chía but fixed no such

time someday and there are several self-sabotage

this is the amazing woman who told me

this sentence and well I went for another

panel was gone people listening and in

that sends me an email to the cell phone and

checked and the email was from a student

from switzerland since two hours from davos

where we were saying hello

I felt my name is camila

I am a Swiss student I would like

be exposing in davos took a train and

I’m outside is very numbered

I’m outside waiting for the snow in case

something happened because they are a model to follow

and I would like to know them and have

chance and I got there for less

It is crying for so people really

for the good packaging I left I went and

I spoke with her and with her teacher

for two hours it was the best experience

of all / or much more powerful than

meet bill gates or any of

the world leaders that are there and

she told me is that I ‘m not going to

dare to send the mail but my teacher

he insisted

and I never imagined that you were going to

answer

and she later from dehesa of that

conversation decided to go back to where their

prof and say I want others

students have the experience that

youtube and is organizing the first

I find young people in Switzerland that is going to be

in January next year and she speaks in

the website that the event is born

inspired by the conversation with me what

that you have no idea is that I’m going to

get to tell her and tell the

people and what she impacted me and I

help me because like her

he believed that I did not want to answer the

I never believed that I would choose

to go to or it will be the third time

I have already been told that you do not want and

less I imagined that I burn in choosing

to be a panelist and that is that

feeling of I am not enough

good

that doubt that compare me with others and

there are people better than me

that he did not deserve it

always there will be in us the

women because that is how they educated us so

socialize the only way to hit the

glass ceilings those roofs that we

limit in action

we have to dare to run the

risk to be able to think about our

own roofs and help other women

to beat is thanks

[Applause]

and

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