Project Eve

Creating a New Vision of Womanhood for the 21st Century.

I made up that title- sounded good. Eve being the mother of all human life (my catholic name being Eva).

Yesterday at the USIP-US Institute For Peace, an imposing building on the National Mall, a panel of all women (for a change) discussed the role entrepreneurial women have in building peace in conflict regions. Fascinating.

"Women cannot be about fifty percent of the population and a special interest group at the same time" noted one panelist (sort of sarcastically). Yes, we are fifty percent of the population and called a "special interest group."

When the Republicans challenge abortion on demand it is called "republican war on women" and when the Feminists for Life disagree, they are called -what-? Dumb?? Religious nuts?? Seriously.

What we need is a better discourse that leads to more proactive better economic empowerment that embraces motherhood in strong ways. Economically empowered and mothers. The perfect ideal person to Chair the new Project (with Michele O on the Board obviously) is Maria Shriver.

She needs something to do now, and understands that the ideal model of relying emotionally on a man isn't always available to all women. African American women deal in hugely disproportionate numbers with a male unavailable emotionally and financially because they are incarcerated in this country disproportionately by the millions. This affects millions of households. Males die younger than women and there are huge numbers of young widows.
In conflict regions the males leave, join forces or are killed in huge numbers. And the women still have to take care of their families. There are ridiculous numbers of Military widows in this country, more war just means more death.

I propose Project Eve- a look at women's entrepreneurship with a White House Task Force and Maria Shriver as Czar.

O'Bama you can steal my idea and run with it.