The status of women and girls in California, with Darcy Totten

CAPITOL WEEKLY PODCAST: Our guest is Darcy Totten, Executive Director at the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls. The Commission was established by the legislature in 1965 for the purpose of developing recommendations “which will enable women to make the maximum contribution to society.” In 1971 Governor Reagan made the Commission a permanent, independent agency. Totten joined us to talk about the history of the organization, the challenges women and girls face today and what the future might look like.

1:04 Telematics story

2:04 Cardroom regulations and impact on local governments

3:13 Affordability

8:40 Darcy Totten

11:41 Temperature check

15:09 The federal picture

18:17 Radical solidarity

21:01 The Girls’ Agenda

26:15 ‘How do you bake gender equity into every system?”

30:33 What about the CA legislature?

36:05 Regulating AI or social media

38:07 “Sometimes you need the bigger change”

44:59 Statewide blueprint

45:44 #WWCA