we thank you both for being with us, genevieve wood and ariane hegewisch. thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: several countries in west africa are now coping with the worst outbreak of the ebola virus in years. the world health organization describes it as one of the most challenging episodes of the disease it's ever faced. more than 100 people have died so far. ebola, which is spread by a virus initially transmitted from wild animals, has a high fatality rate. jeffrey brown has more on the struggle to contain it. >> brown: one of the concerns is that ebola has crossed borders. guinea is where the outbreak began and was first made public in march. more than 100 deaths and 150 cases have been reported there. another troubling aspect: the disease has turned up in a wide area. from tropical forests to the capital of conarky to the liberian border. in liberia, investigators believe there are at least 10 deaths. health officials are now investigating possible cases in both in mali and ghana. more than 60% of infected people have died. laurie garrett of the cou

tomorrow morning on "washington arinal" we will hear from hegewisch and peter morici. and your phone calls, facebook comments, and tweets all on "washington journal." finance ministers meet in washington. christine lagarde discuss the imf's plan to loan up to $18 billion to ukraine. she hopes the a authorities will deliver on their commitment, china's global markets, greece, and deflation in the eurozone. >> ok. thank you for the photographs. good morning, everyone. welcome to this press conference. thank you for coming. very nice to see you. we are on record this morning. we will get your question shortly and we ask you to keep them short. stake to one question please. it is my pleasure to introduce to you the managing director of the imf, madame christine lagarde and the first deputy managing director, david lipton. with that, let me turn to madame lagardere for opening regards and we will get to your questions. >> thank you. good morning to all of you. welcome to the 2014 spring meeting. in will have seen numbers the wheel that was presented a .ouple of years ago re

ariane hegewisch and peter morici. david is up first from ohio. caller: good morning.e -- there are different things. with women, they have to go out of the workforce and come back in. then they go out and come back in. now, pay quality -- you cannot match that up. what do you think of that? guest: two things. first, yes, women have babies. that does not mean that we have to stay out and look after children. men want to share that. also, maybe it is a lesson to learn from germany and japan. if you make it so you can be independent as a woman either by having kids or by working -- you can't do both. then a lot of women will not have kids anymore. japan and germany have a terrible crisis because women who want to work and be educated and have a career are kind of forcefully dissuaded fromh having kids. you cannot combine work and career. there has to be a happy medium. we have to make it easier for families to have children. child care at the moment -- it costs more and a lot of states than a year of college. we have to invest more in families to make it possible for eve

ariane hegewisch and peter morici. david is up first from ohio. caller: good morning.iane -- there are different things. with women, they have to go out of the workforce and come back in. then they go out and come back in. now, pay quality -- you cannot match that up. what do you think of that? guest: two things. first, yes, women have babies. that does not mean that we have to stay out and look after children. men want to share that. also, maybe it is a lesson to learn from germany and japan. if you make it so you can be independent as a woman either by having kids or by working -- you can't do both. then a lot of women will not have kids anymore. japan and germany have a terrible crisis because women who want to work and be educated and have a career are kind of forcefully dissuaded fromh having kids. you cannot combine work and career. there has to be a happy medium. we have to make it easier for families to have children. child care at the moment -- it costs more and a lot of states than a year of college. we have to invest more in families to make it possible for