Last night on Chewing the Fat with Ophelia, Amy Siskind talked about Zoe Cruz, a colleague from her Wall Street days who became President of Morgan Stanley before she was fired at the beginning of the current economic crisis, along with Wall Street’s two other top women. This corporate blood-letting failed to appease the Gods of Finance, and the market continued to decline even after the women were purged.
Last night Amy talked about what Zoe Cruz did for other women in her field, and how we can all benefit by her example:
Women promote other women and mentor other women, and that is the way forward. Zoe Cruz was a tireless promoter of women.
You need a woman who’s going to have drinks with the girls and say, “This is how you get to be a partner. This is what you need to do. This is how you get through the shit. This is the kind of stuff that the guys get at the strip clubs, but we’re going to hang out, girls, and I’m going to help you.”
And that’s what we all need to do.
In “The Queen Who Couldn’t? (Or Wasn’t Allowed?)”, Eric Best, another former colleague of Cruz’s, writes allegorically about her ousting and the gender-based unrest that preceded it:
[B]ecause she was a woman, a number of the more senior men hated her. None hated her more than those whose jobs she threatened or whose income and influence she might overtake in her ascent to the throne.
The New Agenda will be putting Zoe Cruz’s name forward as a potential candidate to fill Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat, should Clinton accept Obama’s offer of Secretary of State.
Mmm, I have loved having Clinton here in NY. Now to hear of another woman, strong and unapologetic in a world that often prefers quiet and meek, well, it makes me feel all warm, strong and unapologetic. Go Zoe!
How does NY replace a Senator — will the governor appoint one or will there be a special election?
Yes. Governor Patterson will appoint Hillary’s replacement if she becomes SOS.
The New Agenda has a press release written and ready to go with a list of qualified women if and when Hillary is offered and accepts.
Feel free to submit suggestions for our list if you would like.
Amy
Thanks to you and others at TNA for being on top of this. If Clinton is offered and accepts the SoS position, replacement ideas for her Senate seat is a great place for this org to have a voice!
I just posted this over at PUMA, and Confluence, but I wanted to know what you think:
I have something on my mind in keeping with the 30% solution and the recent appointment of Kaufman to take over Biden’s seat.
It’s regarding a replacement for Kaufman at his current post at the Broadcasting Board of Governors. I believe this avenue should now be considered a political conduit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B....._Governors
http://www.bbg.gov/
These are vacancies:
http://www.bbg.gov/about/jobs/index.html
There might be inadequate budget issues that are creating these vacancies. It’s hard to imagine Bush didn’t keep this up.
In any event, it seems a worthwhile effort to assure the Government mouth organ hires more women and has gender neutral or gender positive voices. Plus, this is one field where we have a pretty large qualified pool. Except, I don’t know anyone in that field; does anyone else?
Yesterday I found a page on their site indicating a Board vacancy in addition to the one that Kaufman will create. Today I can’t find it, however, I see no more board members listed.
Anyway, I thought I would toss it out there.
Thanks for the suggestion roofingbird.
I think this mission is one degree of separation too much for us right now. We are working full throtlle on a number of items, and this is just beyond the scope of what The New Agenda can take on right now.
Further to what Amy said, roofingbird, please consider starting or joining a local chapter of The New Agenda.
It’s the only way we’re going to be able to cover all of these issues. We have an email address for people to sign up around here somewhere, don’t we, Amy?
Yes, on the “Join” page.
NewAgendaTeamCaptain@yahoo.com
And send any constructive women’s groups our way. We need help in building coalitions with women that will act!
When and if the time comes, I would love to travel to NY and help support Ms. Cruz’s nomination.