For International Women’s Day, our President and Global CEO Yael Eckstein reflects on the essential strengths of women and that how practicing and acknowledging them is a hineni moment in itself in an op-ed with Charimsa:
Women occupy a unique place in the world. In pregnancy, in childbirth, in raising children, in the way we nurture, in the way we listen, in the way we hold families and communities together. This is not about rigid gender roles. My husband worked from home when our children were young and was deeply involved in every part of their lives.
It is not about who does what. It is about each person contributing what they uniquely can to make society whole.
Women bring distinct strengths: empathy, intuition, resilience, the ability to see possibility in broken places. These strengths are not small or insignificant. On the contrary, they are essential.
There are real moments when things are not fair. Inequality exists. Injustice exists. But I have learned that outrage alone does not create goodness. Outrage may feel righteous, but if it does not lead to action, it tears the world apart, rather than healing it.
So instead of asking, “Why is this happening?” I ask a different question: What is my hineni moment here?
