by the way, my grandfather lived in bedford stuyvesant as a little boy as a jewish immigrant kid. anyway, the idea that we don't have a full representation says a great deal. first of all, it means it's very difficult for women to run and a lot of women are reluctant to do so. this is often credited to women believing they're not prepared or having difficulties fundraising. and i think there's a lot of reluctance on the part of many women to subject. thes to the criticism that comes when you run for office. i also believe that if women like chisolm run, their campaign is less of a focus on gender than on race, and we see that in the story of shirley chisolm. she was not primarily seep as a female candidate but as a black woman, and she was treated very differently than the way hillary and sarah palin were evaluated in terms of femininity. >> host: guess what, bruce is back. they i cut off. bruce, hi, thanks, i apologize. >> caller: that's all right. i was saying, a book by sheila rothman about feminism, she went into detail about how the reason women wanted the vote was two things

by the way, my grandfather lived in bedford stuyvesant as a little boy as a jewish immigrant kid. anyway, the idea that we don't have a full representation says a great deal. first of all, it means it's very difficult for women to run and a lot of women are reluctant to do so. this is often credited to women believing they're not prepared or having difficulties fundraising. and i think there's a lot of reluctance on the part of many women to subject. thes to the criticism that comes when you run for office. i also believe that if women like chisolm run, their campaign is less of a focus on gender than on race, and we see that in the story of shirley chisolm. she was not primarily seep as a female candidate but as a black woman, and she was treated very differently than the way hillary and sarah palin were evaluated in terms of femininity. >> host: guess what, bruce is back. they i cut off. bruce, hi, thanks, i apologize. >> caller: that's all right. i was saying, a book by sheila rothman about feminism, she went into detail about how the reason women wanted the vote was two things

agriculture committee as a freshman representative, and she refused saying, you know, i represent bedford stuyvesant and we don't have a lot of agriculture trip. need to address my constituent issues. i just love that. by the way, my grandfather lived in bedford a little boy. a jewish immigrant kid. and in the rate, the idea that we don't have a full representation says a great deal first of all, it means it is very difficult for women to run. a lot of women are reluctant to do so. this is often credited to the monopoly and have prepared are having difficulty fund-raising. a think there's a lot of reluctance on the part of many women to subject themselves to the criticism that comes when you ran for office. while some believe that if women run, the campaign is less of a focus on gender and race. we see that in the story of surely chisolm. she was treated very differently in terms of femininity. >> host: guess what, back from laurel, md., and ilmenite cut off. hi. thanks. i'll apologize. >> sorry. >> let's are right. first what i was saying was the book by sheila rothman, went into detail about how t