Created in 1984, the TED conferences have become an international phenomenon declined worldwide. In Paris, in 2013, Beatrice Duboisset TEDxChampsÉlyséesWomen launched on 1 st TEDxWomen in France: a conference made by women (but not only) in which only women speak, and that is for everyone. We wanted to learn more about the one that decided to put other women into the light.
Beatrice Duboisset has blossomed forties and already several professional lives. The first took place in the computer world. It is commercial, "I was recruited by a woman, we were a team of women, and we sold the work of engineers who themselves were mostly men." Far from portraying the relationships between women where each is observed and talking in the back of the other, she appreciates this professional women's quarters. She felt welcomed and said he learned kindness to women and hardness, sometimes required by the world of work with men. Beatrice is changing and becoming more and more responsibility until the position of commercial director. But she began to want something else. While she does not yet know what exactly she will make choices that imperceptibly will lead her exactly where she wanted to go.
She began a executive MBA and engages in a women's network, "Women of digital." She tastes engagement, volunteerism, and became interested particularly young girls who are still too few to dare dies engineers. "It was a very rewarding experience. I met many exciting people coming companies and very different sectors. But there was something missing and I began to feel frustration. I needed action, in practice, of implementation."Says one who has then not yet 40 years and is in the process of initiating a professional transfer.
She discovers social networks, is passionate twitter particular, decided to engage in communications consulting and Alsace chosen as preferred terrain. There she discovers the TEDx world by the knowledge of Salah Benzakour that mounted TEDxAlsace. His need for volunteerism takes it and runs the digital part of the event in parallel to his new profession. It then develops on Bordeaux and is committed to TEDxBordeaux. It is definitely reached by the virus TED!
The expression of a feminism
Back in Paris, a sleepless night she spends surfing the web, Beatrice discovers TEDWomen. "It's obvious to me!There was not in France and it really is what I want to do. There's this glass ceiling that girls feel they have over their heads and keep long time, sometimes forever. With TEDxWomen, I see immediately the potential of struggle against these social and psychological barriers. "Recalls Beatrice. Is she a feminist? "Yes, but not extremist, she replies. Too often conflated. The media have some responsibility because it is more salesman talk movements that speak louder. " But it is time that we understand our differences to really practice living together which much has been said following the attacks of 2015 ". Thus, for Beatrice if girls do not dare to easily raise their hands in school, it's teachers to let them speak without waiting for them to. "Building an ease to orality is building confidence that will help them in their life journey: with their friends, family, others in general, in building their professional life, etc. ".
The value of women
For Beatrice, TEDxWomen contributes to the visibility of women in all sectors, in a friendly and dynamic format.It is a way of saying that women are everywhere, they can be anywhere, in any field of activity, experiencing an enlightening experience in many ways, they contribute to society whether. "Women need to be aware of their value," repeated Beatrice who think it is by this that we get men and women to live together.
The 1 st edition of TEDxWomen in Paris was in 2013. Beatrice prepares the 3 th to be held in late October - early November 2016. She is working on its program the tragic and violent events in 2015 fueled much reflection. His "community" (understand its audience) is composed of 35% men. "I want to reach more young women, pupils and students," says Beatrice, who does not lose sight of its workhorse. Besides, it has also created TEDxChampsÉlyséesED (for Education) in 2015 because for it the same fight. And sexuality in? Sure, it has its place in a TEDxWomen (Education or elsewhere), but Beatrice has not yet found ways to talk. "It remains a discrete subject, if not taboo, she acknowledges. I do not want to fall into the commonplace. "We were quite a few ideas! A "good entendeuses" ...
Sunday 05/08/2016
