WFN Summit Explores How to Get More Women Into Office

The Women's Funding Network Summit began with Feminist leader and journalist Marianne Schnall discussing her eight-year-old daughter's striking question after the election of Barack Obama in 2008. Why have we not had a woman president? Women's Funding Network recently hosted a summit in New York, bringing together thought leadership to grow the movement for women's equality. The question wouldn't go away for Schnall, and soon she found herself bringing it up to thought leaders and scholars, trying to figure out what it would take to put a woman in the highest governmental office in America. One thing Schnall realized in this process was the need for stronger coalition-building across progressive movements. "This isn't a women's issue. It's a human issue. It's an issue of having a reflective democracy, and that's why we need to have men be part of these conversations," said Schnall. Marianne Schnall, Founder of Feminist.com, introduces the panelists at the Women's Funding Ne