please welcome a director stanford's institute deborah rhode. [applause] >> i am enormously pleased to be here and even more so that you are we allen said 90 percent of life is showing up in it matters what you show up for but i'm sorry. so let me begin with "the new yorker" cartoon that a woman enforcers' skeptical husband that yes they do speak for all women. this is not the claim that any feminist would make. women don't speak with one voice and women's issues. we have to be prepared to generalize with it as a group for perth -- for growth's fifths in the goal of equality between the sexes much to survey leaders of women's organizations to have a broader array of research. the book begins with a brief autobiographical account how we came to write the book will not drill on that now although i am happy to answer questions will just say of what it was like to be a woman in lawsuits in a faculty member back in the day. i never had a lot course taught by or about women. and was notable for its absence - - absence of curriculum. but things could h