When I go to meetings today, I see more women, and I see
many more younger women coming into the field.  But what’s really struck
me, as I’ve been thinking about this issue of women in foreign policy in the
last couple years, is the difference between presence and voice.  There
are many more women working in foreign policy today, but you don’t see the same
proportion of women prominent in foreign policy speaking in the media, in
senior positions, or even when you’re all in the room together sitting at the
table and speaking as the lead speaker at a conference.  It’s that
distinction between presence and voice and what accounts for that gap. 
That’s what I find both fascinating and frustrating.”—Tamara Wittes