On a historic day, women gather to chart the ‘new rules’
As a partisan duel took place in Washington, a Brooklyn conference looked for solutions to problems in the workplace and beyond
As a partisan duel took place in Washington, a Brooklyn conference looked for solutions to problems in the workplace and beyond.
“It’s a hell of a day for a women’s conference,” said Rebecca Blumenstein, deputy managing editor of The New York Times, before an audience of 250 influential women in Brooklyn this week. “We like to call our conferences ‘live journalism,’ and today that could not be more true.”
The Times’ New Rules Summit, created “to identify new solutions to the enduring challenges women face in the workplace and beyond,” had been long planned, but happened to take place just as a watershed moment was unfolding in Washington with the riveting testimony of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman accusing him of sexual assault, Christine Blasey Ford.