rebec rebecca. pamela. rose gonzales. julia gordon. henson. jessica. martin mckinsey.karen. david. carr winston. rebecca rogers. elizabeth ross. barbara. joanna. marie tang. and last but not least sarah. class of 2013 national board certified teachers. >> at this time, i'd like to remind our audience you must submit a speaker card if you want to speak on a particular item on the agenda this evening. and i believe speaker cards are available outside if not see ms. csa could now we will have student delegates report we would like to introduce our delegation we have four candidates but we have more today is the last day to turn them in. our candidates will stand up and introduce themselves >> yes. feel free to come to the podium. >> i'll elizabeth jones i'm currently a junior and i'm excited to run for student delete. >> excuse me. audience is as your existing the room quote please we're still conducting business. >> i'm alison i'm currently a junior and excited to be running. >> good evening. i'm from warmburg high school and very happy to be running. (clapping.) thank y

i'm going to start with you, rebec rebecca, this idea of men taking paternity leave being a side of weaknesss chris said, it's ridiculous. i want to talk a little bit about these questions you heard them ask, what's he going to do, sit there and look at the baby? what do you do besides breast-feed? this is actually at the core of a bigger system of how you divide the labor of parenting. when you have a new baby, neither in a heterosexual union, neither person knows what to do with it. if the man isn't there, the woman learns how to do it and she's the one that does it forever. it's how you set up a whole system of how domestic labor is organized. not just for those first few days or hours or weeks. but on for years. and that's how we get an unequal system of parenting. so this kind of issue of male presence and participation in the parenting and family structure, this isn't just -- what happens in those first few moments extends beyond that and part of a much bigger gender system. >> inside the professional sports league, obviously the role of the wife, they're supposed to play, is very gend