"A Seat at the Table" Isn't the Solution for Gender Equity | Lilly Singh | TED

"What I've learned is, when you get the seat, trying to fix the seat won't fix the problem. Why? Because the table was never built for us in the first place. The solution? Build better tables."

"A woman shouldn't be grateful to sit at a table. She should be paid to sit at a table. ... a woman doing a job and being paid in money, opportunity and promotion, not just gratitude."

"We have to get rid of the scarcity mindset and champion each other ... Don't be convinced to fight for one spot. Instead fight for multiple spots."

"Don't hold something called a 'prove it again' bias, which requires less privileged people to constantly keep proving themselves, even though white men tend to get by on just their potential."

"A true investment is one that values potential over proof. ... Invest in empowering something different. Give them the support they actually need."

"Yet women and girls make up only a quarter of the people interviewed or that the news is even about in the first place."

"He raised his hand and decorated me with a flower garland ... He said the words he was wrong. ... He said that I had done what no one else could have done, and I had made the family name proud."