\u201cAs women we are conditioned to not be asked what we want. We probably have some idea, but we have safely stored it somewhere on a cloud. This imaginary cloud does not need security because we know no one is interested. But it does mean we don\u2019t have answers ready in bullets,\u201d Kaveri, a midwife, pursuing her PhD, says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This became clear when she took the What Women Want<\/em> campaign to an event at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in London. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHere was an educated and empowered group of people,\u201d she says, \u201cbut most of them were surprised at the question and had no answer. Some came back after thinking about that one thing they want. Others went from not knowing to having a huge list of wants to pick from\u2014within minutes!\u201d Kaveri had seen this same pattern in India, but in areas where women are highly disadvantaged. Kaveri also took the campaign to an International Women\u2019s Day breakfast hosted by long time WRA Champion Sarah Brown. \u201cWe made connections and spread the word through a room full of influential champions and advocates like Kainat Riaz and Jamira Burley. It was inspirational!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n She also took the campaign to the Million Women Rise march and campaigned in her university with other PhD student volunteers. They approached women and girls in the library, cafes and restaurants, outside the college theatre and on the streets. They heard from men, too, who thought the campaign wasn\u2019t for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is absolutely for you,\u201d she told them. \u201cThis is an exciting opportunity for you to find out what women want in your home, your office and in your life!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cAs women we are conditioned to not be asked what we want. We probably have some idea, but we have safely stored it somewhere on a cloud. This imaginary cloud does not need security because we know no one is interested. But it does mean we don\u2019t have answers ready in bullets,\u201d Kaveri, a midwife, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[40],"country":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3487"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4359,"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions\/4359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3487"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=3487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}