Women and Girls in NatSec -- Sleeping pill for the patriarchy? (Pandas Playing Cello--9)

Carmen and Julia welcome Lauren Bean Buitta (), Founder and CEO of Girl Security (), as our guest in a conversation about how to welcome girls' and womens' minds and voices in the world of national security. We cover the dangers of embarrassment/humiliation and discuss harassment, sexual assault, elite vs. elitism, "maleordered environments" like every government agency and how the culture is no one's fault but needs to transition...as usual, a lot of ideas. Oh, and stupid TV shows about spies. That's how we get to patriarchy and AI.

Resources:

Girl Security

An excellent article about Girl Security's work

A sampling of research on mixed-gender teams:

The study suggesting that short-term teams that don't have time to find a common communication language work better with people who share the same culture (in this case single gender):

On "male orderedness":

The National Organization for Men Against Sexism:

Here's a link to Carmen's favorite Catholic sisters

As always, if you want to learn more about Julia and Carmen check their LinkedIn profiles.

We actually don't sh--dance in this episode (even though it's the first episode in which Carmen and Julia were in the same place so it would have been awesome -- ahem!). But Julia continues to hope and so to add a song or two to the PPC playlist every week.

The iTunes and Spotify playlists are the same, so choose the streaming platform you like if you want to listen:

[Note: if you have access to iTunes, you should know that it is a much better streaming service for musical artists, paying them much higher wages per stream than Spotify and being less annoying in terms of everything a musical artist needs.]