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“Overture”: Roundup of TEDWomen, Session 1

 

Asphalt Orchestra storms the stage.

 

Hanna Rosin: For every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.

 

TEDWomen co-producer Pat Mitchell talks to entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner.

 

Halla Tomasdottir talks about bringing feminine values into finance.

 

Cartoonist Liza Donnelly: “We can change the world one laugh at a time.”

 

Elizabeth Lindsey keeps ancestral voices alive by recording indigenous wisdom and traditions.

 

Hans Rosling: “If you have a democracy, people will vote for washing machines.”

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