Electric with empowerment

The atmosphere at London's Southbank centre was electric with empowerment last night, at the first London event held by Hearst UK's new digital brand, Hearst Empowering Women.

Host Miranda Sawyer warmed up the crowd, sharing her own (x-rated) stories of how she found empowerment despite working in a sexist industry, before introducing the panel of star editors from Hearst UK’s leading brands: Good Housekeeping’s Lindsay Nicholson, Cosmopolitan’s Louise Court, Digital Spy’s David Moynihan, Red’s Sarah Bailey, and Elle’s Lorraine Candy.

The panel shared their views and experiences regarding equality, empowerment, and enlightened men, at times drawing gasps of astonishment, cheers of delight, and peals of laughter from the floor – not to mention some incisive questions, too.

Here are six top pieces of wisdom from the night:
* We will only achieve true equality when we have thoroughly mediocre women in top jobs! – Lindsay Nicholson
* The language I use around myself will help to empower women in the future – Lorraine Candy
* There’s nothing wrong with getting things wrong – if you have the chutzpah to get through it! – Louise Court
* All bad experiences, turn into good anecdotes! – Miranda Sawyer
* Any job interview starts on social media – the first thing I do with job applicants is look them up on Twitter – David Moyniahan
* Empowering women to succeed in business is about giving them the true confidence to listen to their gut – Sarah Bailey

Check out @hearstwomen on Twitter to read more quotes from the night, and please like our Hearst Empowering Women page on Facebook!

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