Outrageous Women with Elizabeth Debold, Ph.D.

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It wasn't that long ago that every woman wore a girdle. My, how things have changed. We got rid of the girdles and made a declaration of independence from patriarchy - and now struggle to find a way to be powerful and compassionate, proactive and creative, without repeating the mistakes of the old paradigm. It's a shift of evolutionary proportions. But the paradox, according to Elizabeth Debold, is that "the group that has benefited the most from an evolutionary shift often wants to hang on to it. And this is my concern about women right now." Forty years ago we never would have imagined we'd find ourselves often less than effective in our circles, or drifting not-so-slightly into a feminist version of hierarchy. Dr. Debold has identified a new model for working together professionally and personally that will define how we move beyond our circles, beyond hierarchy, to take the next step in the evolution of our gender roles and of our species. (hosted by Justine Willis Toms)

Bio

Elizabeth Debold, Ph.D. is Senior Editor of What Is Enlightenment magazine. She received her doctorate in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University, and is a founding member of the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology and Girls' Development. She is also Academic Director of the Conscious Evolution Master's program at the Graduate Institute in Millford, Connecticut.

Dr. Debold is a coauthor of:

• Mother Daughter Revolution: From Good Girls to Great Women (Bantam 1994)

Topics Explored in This Dialogue

• Why you might sometimes be resistant to female leadership
• Why traditional male-female roles still hold a powerful attraction
• When hierarchy is a good thing
• Why you may find it difficult to trust other women
• What is the leadership that will take us beyond competition and hierarchy
• How spirituality and consciousness relate to competition and hierarchy