Council on Women and Girls - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Council on Women and Girls Index / Organizations Transcripts Charles Bolden ...this vision. She had the White House Council on Women and Girls , and she had this vision of bringin... ...for a program like the White House Council on Women and Girls , and having her chief of staff who wa... ...key role in supporting the White House Council on Women and Girls —and we actively did that. So tha... ...because there was this White House Council on Women and Girls that was there; my Brother's Keeper... Valerie Jarrett ...roles and then there was a White House Council on Women and Girls , which was another role too. Yeah... ...guess we backtrack a little bit to the Council on Women and Girls , which I see as so important, findin... ...have continued both the White House Council on Women and Girls , and she had been a staunch advocat... ...In terms of the achievements of the Council on Women and Girls , what are you proudest of havin... ...that I took on around the White House Council on Women and Girls , that I chaired for all eight years... ...I were—I was chairing the White House Council on Women and Girls , Tina was the executive director. An... ...was that we created the White House Council on Women and Girls the third month he was in office i... ...Engagement and chairing the White House Council on Women and Girls , that I was looking at whatever wen... ...you were chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls , could you describe some of the way... ...and equity in the White House. The Council on Women and Girls was the first time in history there ha... Show more... Tina Tchen ...with me—this was in my White House Council on Women and Girls role—on putting together the kinds o... ...begin with your signature work on the Council on Women and Girls , although we're going to come back t... ...and was the deputy for the White House Council on Women and Girls . And that's the model that we kept... ...first year, both with my OPE hat and my Council on Women and Girls hat on, to appreciate the power of wha... ...who was our contact person for the Council on Women and Girls had organized. And I think they wer... ...tell this story. When I talk about the Council on Women and Girls , I use that as my example, often... ...to do, much like our theory behind the Council on Women and Girls , was that it needed not to be ... ...happen is, because of my role as the Council on Women and Girls , and then you added onto it, in th... ...in OPE, and then as we started the Council on Women and Girls . There is a statutorily create... ...to elevate that, and through the Council on Women and Girls . And then we reignited a, again... ...on pulled Lynn into the White House Council on Women and Girls , our key leadership, because on thos... ...It also had a lot of relevance to my Council on Women and Girls hat, because both Valerie and I coul... ...to appreciate—a lot of my White House Council on Women and Girls work, this work that we did fro... ...then some of the great successes of the Council on Women and Girls , too, will be great to talk about. An... ...wasn't getting reported. As part of the Council on Women and Girls work on violence against women, mysel... ...public engagement role merging with my Council on Women and Girls role, was to make sure we were talkin... ...executive director of the White House Council on Women and Girls . That's how it started before even ... ...other thing I experienced is, being the Council on Women and Girls , was the women's movement is reall... ...through the work we were doing with the Council on Women and Girls . Could we bring all those thread... ...globally? So we were. The work of the Council on Women and Girls was intended to be both domestic an... ...working together in the context of the Council on Women and Girls because that office was obviously th... ...this work as one of our deputies on the Council on Women and Girls to really think about how do we pu... ...position came open to be the deputy for Council on Women and Girls , she took that job. But I would pul... ...worked with, in both my [White House] Council on Women and Girls role, but also, very particularly, o... ...I thought about each of those. For the Council on Women and Girls , one of the things we did during 2016... ...who were the designees for the Council on Women and Girls in each agency, we started to ask the... ...do something that we realized from the Council on Women and Girls had been a problem, which is, th... ...so in my position at the White House Council on Women and Girls , for example, they were our foreig... ...think it's one of the ideas behind the Council on Women and Girls , but since it was new, you had t... ...involved in that, in my capacity at the Council on Women and Girls . I became, because of that, the perso... ...around explaining the power of the Council on Women and Girls is to say, “Secretary LaHood a... ...was the original concept behind the Council on Women and Girls , which was, not to have a singula... ...I described earlier about having our Council on Women and Girls people bring a career person to ou... ...dollars, but getting all of those. And Council on Women and Girls , we did a thing for women and girls o... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Financial Reform and Regulation Financial Reform and Regulation go to the Veterans Veterans go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Labor Labor go to the Native America Native America