In this Open Gov Story, Sarah Orton-Vipond(Development Gateway) and Mor Rubinstein(360Giving)explore the question: What is the biggest challenge for women working in the field of OpenGov? The short answer: time. They talk about the gender inequality at home with chores and at work, including the Israeli military experience. 

Sarah and Mor also talk about the Open Gender Monologues as a therapeutic safe space, as well as the Open Heroines initiative that augments the voices of women in opengov, open data, and civic tech. Learn more here: https://openheroines.org/

Roots & Identity: Venezuelan and Egyptian Perceptions in America (Nada Zohdy & Andres Marquez-Lara)

Why do you care about changing the world? Open Gov Stories is a Global Podcast Series, which goes behind the scenes to explore why social change makers really do the work they do. 

In each episode, listen to candid interviews between friends and colleagues who have devoted their lives to changing the world. Using the StoryCorps model and app, they share personal origin stories, lessons on how to open up governments, empower citizens and change the world, and their visions for the future. Listen to their stories and add your own.

This podcast is a partnership of Open Gov Hub and the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, in collaboration with StoryCorps. Interviews provided courtesy of StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to preserve and share humanity's stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. www.storycorps.org

Music from https://filmmusic.io:
"Promises to Keep" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)