• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected
person working in women's
rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady
Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it
was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer
for someone rich and powerful
is to make sure that
person has a lawyer, too.»
Michelle: There
was a great story about these women at the white house who
were on the white house staff I think in the previous administration who had kind of got together and said, «This
is what we
're going to do,» and they had a name
for it that will not come to me
right now but it
was essentially that anytime that one woman gave an idea in a meeting, another woman would sort of echo that in order to reinforce and to prevent the mansplaning or the manterrupting, which
is another great little term that
people use or really allow that woman who originally said the idea to
be able to take credit
for it and
be able to speak out and feel reinforced in that meeting which I just thought
was a really clever way to do it.