there's definitely paths that are more -- women friendlyy want to calthat it you he seen where women succeed. i agree partially that it is generational. >> also a lot of sidetracking, there are studies that we saw done for years and years -- >> endless. >> women in major corporations that put in to hr or communications as opposed to bottom line level positions. that's why they don't move up. >> if you can't see -- if you can't draw a duck, don't know what it look like, i think for our generation i can see a lot of women who have gotten to be significantful places that's one thing. but we also have to start seeing men who are willing to make different decisions in the workplace. >> willing to see women differently, put them in different positions, stop doing that so it goes for both. >> all right. from competing at work to strict parenting at home. "i love my strict chinese mom." that's what tiger cub, sophia chua rubenfeld, had to say about all the negative press her tiger mom, amy chua, has been receiving. this after the "wall street journal" published an excerpt from chua's new mem

some women's groups think so. in a recent interview published in "california lawyer," justice scalia said the 14th amendment which grants equal protection to citizens under the law does not protect women from gender discrimination. neither does he believe it protects against discrimination based on sexual orientation. scalia explained, "if the current society wants to outlaw discrimination by sex, we have things called legislatures, and they enact things called laws." while the 14th amendment does not explicitly mention gender, some legal scholars argue the amendment grants women protection from discrimination. this isn't the first time the 24-year supreme court veteran has stirred up controversy regarding women's rights. in 1996, scalia was the only justice to vote against allowing women to attend the all-male virginia military institute. accidents of. >> this some of your colleagues said this comment was proofed that it was time to introduce the era, constitutional amend tomorrow protect women he's rights. are t

women. >> hello, i'm bonnie erbe. welcome to "to the contrary," a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. up first, the tucson massacre and gun control: the tragedy in tucson has renewed efforts to tighten gun control laws. house democrat carolyn mccarthy wants to reinstate a ban on high-capacity magazines. police say this is the type of clip the gunman allegedly used to kill six people and injure 14 others including congresswomen gabrielle giffords. high-capacity ammunition clips which can hold more than 30 bullets were outlawed 16 years ago under the federal assault weapons ban. but that law expired in 2004. gun control proponents are rallying behind mccarthy's amendment as well as one offered by new york republican peter king that would outlaw weapons within 1,000 feet of federal officials, but king's own party leaders are not backing his plan. a new poll finds 47% of americans now support stricter gun laws, up from 40% last year, but way, way down from almost 80%

what i have found in my research about the women thomas jefferson loved and the women i talked about are his mother, his wife, his daughter's, patchy and paul e. his concubine, sally headings and the women of her family and i have a lot to say about them and his granddaughter's. all of these women where people for whom his love mental lot. it meant a lot to him not only for purposes of his private life but also his love for women shaved the way he worked in public. it shaped everything he did in politics. it shaped the legacy for which we revered him. this is a city of -- story about his private life and public accomplishments and how these two are connected. i have written a story based on research into thomas jefferson and books about thomas jefferson are as rare as tuesday. what is this going to tell me that i don't know? the answer to that is tell you about the lives of these women, we used to say about women's history, you can't really find out about women. this is what we were told because the documents aren't there. if we did find women it is a boring story. made a couple putt

and the average age is over twenty seven years old and the vast majority of women who converted also change their appearance with a significant majority adopting the head job or head scarf now we've done stories here on the show how some european countries of voted to ban the job in public to ban minarets but that's not the case in the u.k. now the obvious question really is what is behind this high rate of conversion some followers told britain's the telegraph if they felt lost in their own lives but they were lacking and purpose before conversion and most brits of reported that since their conversion they've been living with ease in the u.k. they've only pays to mental problems from their families about their new choice of religion so what's going on what is compelling so many young white women to convert to islam in droves we're going to delve further into this topic on another program . now if you receive welfare food stamps medicaid should you be subject to random drug tests that's what kentucky state representative lonnie knapp here is proposing in a new bill he claims. it will

there is nothing over easy about it it is ovarian and how young women are making their eggs available for money. >> well, in a industry around for a long time but lacks hardly any regulation, we are finding that a lot of young women, especially ages 21-29 are being solicited to sell their eggs to couples involved in invitro fertilization. >> it is not something you just show up at a doctors office and do you have to be prepared i have heard it compared to, i don't mean to be gory but compared to the drug processes young women under go, comparable to the way they over feed geese to fatten them up. >> that is a terrible analogy but the truth is the women have to take massive doses of hormones in order to hyper stimulate their ovaries to produce more than the normal one or two eggs produced every month in a normal cycle so the hyper stimulation of the ovaries some times can cause as many as a couple dozen eggs in one case a woman produced 50 or 60 eggs, and these are then surgically extracted and the film exploitation we have been showing -- >> how long is the process from when they star

women that talk back women that gossiped a lot and women that just were not under very good control it was deemed necessary to use force not. ten years. so there is only one way to beating kicking those types of things that plays into the idea that women essentially that are being abused somehow are deserving of that abuse they have brought it on their head picking their husbands there's the possibility of adultery they don't know when to shut up they push them too far and so essentially they're asking for it in this plays into how in the criminal justice system we treat women who are abused which traditionally has not been very well and so there is a general kind of perception in the hierarchy of power structure of the females are still under males and that the man knows best and if the man is resorting to violence somehow it's because either it's necessary and or she brought it on herself so we see this in that scene in titanic where he tells her you will not embarrass me you are going to be my wife and you will abide by my rules. frex six not yet by law so you will. time she learned

a san francisco group called women's audio mission is putting more women in that line of work. lyanne melendez told us how. >> star wars, the force unleashed is among the popular video games sold to teens and young adults. this swoy who put the voices and sounds together to create a dramatic blend. leslie anne jones, she makes sure to highlight her middle name. >> i think the only way i could really point out that i was a woman when i was on credit is by using my middle name. >> today she is highly respected by her peers as the director of scoring for sky walker sound. she was on the music team for other video games, god of war iii and uncharted ii. today she encourages young women to enter zbleeltd the ability to nurture the self-expression in young girls will go a long way to seeing more women in technical roles. >> that is what women's audio mission is doing, promoting women and girls like the group in the recording arts and music production. this was the only women's group attending the recent audio engineering society convention at moscone center. 18,000 professionals from

we must do more to save women's lives. if you think that of for women you know. and realize that one out of every four women is being abused it's appalling domestic violence can affect people from any age range any social economic background any racial or cultural background we've seen women from asian countries who married american man and moved to this country and then were abused we've seen people from some of the middle eastern countries who are abused as part of their culture so it can hit anybody can just be anyone it can hit doctors wives policeman's wives ministers' wives many victims don't understand that domestic violence includes verbal abuse psychological abuse physical abuse and sexual abuse. it's real it's visible statistics or are not lying here they are telling us what's going on all. i always know that i want to be an artist my father i would go for sunday drives that he would ask who would want to do up us like you know i want to be an artist when i met this man i fell in love with him all psych ok you kn

who worked hard to empower women, women had the right to vote, to be to have roles in government and professions or just in their homes. but now i know that other also stand on my shoulders. >> the last question: your legacy. i know it's early to start talking about that. but what do you want americans to think of when you know, 20 years from now when you are no longer speaker? >> if you had asked me that question a year ago i might have had a different answer but since the passage of healthcare reform, that is the overwhelming initiative that i would like to be remembered for if nothing else happens and ever happened in my career that would be a source of such pride and satisfaction when they ask me what the most important issues facing the congress, i say the same thing: our children, our children, our children. health, education, and the economic security, their families, jobs. the safe clean neighborhoods which they can thrive and a world at peace which they can succeed. so it's always been about the children for me. so i would hope that when the time comes my legacy will be abou

most women would say i want a good husband or to become wealthy or prosperity. what most women say is, we don't want our babys to diet. how do you answer that question? it comes through educating girls and through female literacy. >> thanks, doug. this is different schools. my daughter occasionally, she looks at these photos and said, dad you don't have any playgrounds in your school so now we have playgrounds and skipping ropes and it's been a really great blessing to see. play is an important part of the learning process and socializing so thank you, amira. this is in la lander school, the story is in karen chronicled it in a tab you have there. well this school, there are somal bonn there and tsom some,al b al ban they're and th attacked and tried kill people that came to school. the taliban. the headmaster peddled his bicycle 30 miles to the commander leader and he had two daughters going to another school. he got very upset and came in with 120 militia and did kill onal ban and wounded one and arrested the 12 dozen others and found out they had gotten 200,0

absolutely, and with women in particular, there's both single women who are primarily using the set of homeless services that are tailored towards homeless single adults, as well as women with children. so many families are affected. and they face a number of challenges, both encounters with the criminal justice system but also encounters with the child welfare system, and where their substance use often is a complicating factor with regard to their ability to keep custody of their children. so that is another, i think, challenge that needs to be met. and, you know, it's almost like a very 360 circle. the women are homeless, the children go into foster care, then the children, when they leave foster care, then become homeless themselves. is that the case that you've seen, robert? yes, that's been the case. and, and in our model, one of the things, one of the major focuses that we have are, are being able to provide housing for a, a individual, but not necessarily the family, and that's been one of our major hurdles. we're trying to work with that and create more houses for women with c

will fight back are that when women are out had enough they're going to fight back. into day almost all of our states either have a mandatory or preferred rest policy this mandates that police officers when there is probable cause will make an arrest when they are called to the scene of an alleged domestic violence case and we now provide essentially under the law equal protection regardless of gender and regardless of the relationship between the offender and the victim went to court to go to war to. truly serve these classes and you know misled us for and for me personally. just my feelings and communication was the biggest challenge in my relationship which led to a lot of our arguments. and learning how to share them. i've been in that same old rut we all come into that with the same blood with us. and you know you just start like i said it self assessment kind of makes you look at yourself in a different light be educated. is this the road you want to go to they really don't see the emotional damage that they have done in the relationship because you're teaching

for instance the skills or those wigs women, country women were believed to already possess. in other words they had a knack for weaving in selling. so it's kind of natural that they would fill the ranks of these large factories. and of course the same thing here in new york. seamstresses, those who would accept these low-paying jobs. these jobs were kind of exploited will largely. and so these women, these were teenage when, jewish, italian, many of them barely spoke english. they were glad to have a job they could get. it just try to get a foothold. that is why it appealed more to women workers and why management also soften. you know, for a lot of these people the unions became sort of like the first real part of america that they can identify with. they identified with it much more than their jobs. but uc abroad even now in indonesia at that a lot of these current factories are worked by women, women and girls actually. yes. >> did they have the male union work force? i think the question was having to do with their role as activists fighting for economic or social justic

women lack coverage. key to ensuring the women gives her baby the best chance for a happy, healthy future, as well as other preventive services. the affordable care act prevents other coverages as part of the benefits package and eliminates all co-pays and deductibles for preventive services. this is a tremendous victory for women and children and one that must be safeguarded. another key benefit in the essential benefits package is coverage for yearly screening mammograms after the age of 40. mr. chairman, for several years now, i have pursued legislation that would guarantee coverage for women age 40 and older, and screening mris for women at high risk of developing breast cancer. for many insurance plans cover diagnostic mammograms, mammograms used to develop a mass or tumor that has been detected is cancerous, many do not cover screening for the existence of tumor. for what we know about breast cancer, this is unacceptable. women and families deserve better. mammograms do not detect every tumor. for w

introduced 35 years ago to do a campaign to get all women and men or boys literate. it was 22% and today it's more than 75 percent if you look at a demographic curve with the population, you can see it's just starting to reach an apex in bangladesh. they're way ahead of india, and pakistan. it's an impact to stabilize the population there. also, um... excuse me. you know having hard cover thing fighting terrorism with education i've learned from islamic scholars. in the koran it's implicitly stated in the holy koran when a young mangos on jiha d and this is a spiritual endeavor to seek knowledge. it could also mean he's going into a group. but he has to get blessings from his mother first and if he doesn't do that it's shameful and disgraceful. after 911 the taliban had a high desertion rate and they were trying to get recruit groups to fight against intervention and coalition and they went in literally impoverished societies because educated women refused to allow they're sons to fight in theal bonn. you have a less educated mother here. single parent in the difficu

yeah well it involves women and women's bodies and unfortunately in this country vats consider something that we can actually debate about we can't just say well leave it to the woman it has to do with a woman's body a woman so let's let her make that decision we don't do that in this country so even when you hear republicans talk about abortion it's in this really creepy way where they don't even make reference to women or their health so let's talk about the area of conception or the womb but they don't mention that those things are within a woman's body and maybe we should just leave the decision to her well what's really creepy about it is that we've seen this issue become one you know almost a fundamentalism where there has been violence or we've seen abortion doctors killed for it we have people like you know erick erickson that says massive bloodshed you know will be necessary if roe v wade is overturned that's a get to this point where it becomes violent. well unfortunately the democrats have been pretty complicit in letting it get to this point you know they've been chipping awa

development fund for women joanne sandler is expected to become a senior official in u.n. women. she told nhk that in addition to women living in poverty, there is another issue that needs to be dealt with. >> ending violence against women is, of course, another area that is of critical importance. only in the past ten years really has the issue of violence against women come from being a private issue to a public policy issue. and u.n. women has a critical role to play as part of the u.n. system. >> sandler also said aims of the body include having more girls attend school, lowering maternal mortality rates and protecting women from hiv infection. >>> sales at conveyor belt sushi restaurants continue to rise despite the sluggish economy here in japan. and now the market has reached more than $4 billion. for one conveyor belt manufacturer that is capitalizing on this trend, business is thriving. >> reporter: in october, a rotary sushi restaurant in central tokyo introduced a remarkable system that can quickly respond to customer orders. customers place orders via a touch screen a

half of this women are women of -- half of these women are women of different racial groups. the young women of america are out there. they are excited. they want to lead. i want to tell you some other stuff about them. if you want to change the culture, yet to build a culture. if we do not dance at this level, we do not dance. we have been using the film "fair game" to train women about the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty. where are you out there "no labels" leaders? we want to be able to speak in this movement. we are a nonpartisan organization. this is the way we are going to move our agenda forward. we have lisa burroughs on the board of "no labels." you did not dance as well as i thought you could. this is going to be interesting to see what happens next year because, as i see it, i was a very fortunate woman. i got into politics at a different time. i got into politics when there was a lot of work across all parties. we went to political caucuses together. we made policy changes together. it was phenomenal. it was a very different kind. i am very lucky because i had a mentor like

for who is left behind is the women and they say now they're workload has doubled over the last two decades. i walked into this stli ladies and gentle village and we had yet to have three cup office tea with each other. first cup your a stranger, second cup a friend, and third cup you become family but the process take many years. here in american we have two minutes football drills and 6 second sound bites and 30 minutes power lunches and really it's about three cups of tea and really it's about relationships. i asked about a school and i know thisd the kids disappeared and i asked about school and they were very embarrassed and finally took me behind the village and i saw 84 children sitting in the dirt during school lessons. five girls and 79 boys and writing with sticks in the sand. i've seen a lot of poverty in africa but when i saw those kids and a young girl came up to me and - it was a cold autumn day and he or she said will you help us build a school and i made a very rash promise and promised to build a school. i was very broke and had to raise 12 thousand dollars and i didn't hav

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especially women of my kind. i am a black woman. we should not serve the front lines. it changes everything of our army. we need to get our kids wandering aimless li and make them serve two years to create some discipline. thank you for letting me share my opinion. corina: california. go morning. caller: this is interesting here's the deal. if you are human or american you want to strief to do something bigger than yourself. i know some men who should not be on the front line. gay, straight, it doesn't matter. if you are striefing for something bigger than yourself, national, historical can you step up to it? if you think you can, you should be allowed to step up to it >> saying women should be tested to see where they work best. a grunt is a grunt. caller: i'm an old veteran. i'm 75 and from the old school there's one thing that would turn me against this whole idea. taken prisoner of people that believe in that sharia-type of punishments. the collapse of the government there. that and other countries the notion

protect women in conflict areas. bachelet told participants the agency needs to focus on these areas to achieve tangible results while having ambitious goals. she also called for increased efforts to prevent hiv infections and promote health services for pregnant women. >>> japanese firms are taking part for the first time in a major medical fair held in dubai, the united arab emirates. demand for medical equipment is growing in the region as rising crude oil revenue funds new hospitals. the facilities are also needed to cater a booming population. 2,600 companies from 60 countries are taking part in the four-day event, one of the largest of its kind in the middle east, which started on monday. chinese firms, the largest group of foreign exhibitors, are displaying low-priced products such as instruments for blood tests. german companies are offering ct scans and other high-performance medical equipment. from japan 11 firms joined the event. products on show include ultrafine needles designed to reduce pain and a spec

erica edwards has the latest on the new option for women. >> reporter: barbara, like millions of women, went looking for a way to beat the heat. >> at one point, i was waking 12 times a night. tearing covers off. being very uncomfortable. >> reporter: her ball remedies didn't help and she chose to avoid hormone replacement therapy. >> i come from a school that this is part of growing older. gr grin and bear it. just deal with it. >> reporter: but she didn't have to deal with it for long. she was one of nearly 200 women in a clinical trial testing of an antidepressant. >> over 50% improved after the eight weeks of treatment. >> reporter: dr. freeman led the study at the university of pennsylvania school of medicine after reviewing the daily diaries, the difference was clear. >> this appears to be an option for generally healthy women who are distressed by their men pausal hot flashes. >> i got halfway through the day and realized i hadn't had a hot flash. >> reporter: doctors warn there could be side effects like fatigue and nausea, but experts say having new options is a very cool thin

in some women, 75% fewer hot flashes. only that, but the hot flashes they did have were actually less severe. now, lexapro is currently approved for th treatment of anxiety and major depression. the women in the study had neither, just hot flashes. it has common side effects including headache, nausea and extreme fatigue. in the study, when women stopped taking the drug, their hot flashes returned and a small number actually after stopping it felt dizzy and experienced vivid dreams and excessive sweating. you have to remember that the most effective treatment for hot flashes is still estrogen but there are concerns about hormone therapy so this points to a potential new alternative. that's always good. >> good news for a lot of women. thank you. >>> robert sargent shriver peace corps founder former vice- presidential candidate, husband, father, has died. shriver has been in the hospital for several days. he was diagnosed in 2003 with alzheimer's. his career started in 1961 years after he married eunice kennedy when her br

the nation. >> 43 of these chemicals were found in virtually all the women, 99 to 100% of the women. so that means that each pregnant woman has at least 43 chemicals in her body. >> reporter: researchers say some of the chemicals they found were at levels shown to harm children in other studies. >> we don't know very much about the possible toxicity of these chemicals, one at a time. and then we know even less about what happens when all of these chemicals are in a woman's body or in a child's body all at the same time. >> reporter: pregnant women should not panic. however, to minimize risk, women can eat organic food with fewer chemicals. keep dust out of the house because dust tracks in a lot of chemicals. don't use plastic containers to reheat food in the microwave. and avoid cosmetics with phthalates. michelle kahn is doing what she can for her baby. >> we just want him or her to be really healthy and normal when they come out. >> and dr. kim mulvihill tonight. >>> well, some think they are attractive, others inappropriate. the pricey new bike racks that have neighbors in one bay

these women looked at you.said i would do something but i scar easily. >> liars. >> how important do you think is beingdepricating. >> it's okay. >> you make fun of yourself before they do? >> always about myself. >> of course, she can take on someone else, also. >> do you do that, as sfwhel. >> yeah. rodney dangerfield. why do women get the label? nobody ever said he wasself depricating. >> you're a wonderful person. what brar bah walters says about you is not so. absolutely. you're a bar nice person. >> what is she saying? >> she hates you. >> oh, well. >> so does whoopi. >> can't win them all. >> do you going on "the view"? >> i do except -- >> i love it, anderson. oh, okay. >> all right. never mind. this is over for me. >> i love going on "the view" because you get to see friends. you never goat to see much. there's five of you. >> too many people. too many people. >> that's why you like hln? >> i'm the only one there. i love it. >> what about you, kathy? >> i'm currently under a ban. the ban's been lifted

talk a little bit about sort of polygamy impact and what that says about women in those societies and also a little bit about india, china, korea. >> guest: perhaps the basic starting point is family, the marriage is an economic transaction. we tend to think of it as going by love, but no contract there are trade-offs and -- >> host: we've known this in new york city because you're at lease is coming up, where are you going to move next, the rest of america maybe not so much what new york for sure. >> guest: into the family is an economic unit where the hudson and the wife pay and they're very specific assets and characteristics into this detriment to produce kids which is the ultimate goal and so this little factory where the women put eggs and child care and the men put sperm and substance from the outside the office or the field or whatever there have been many institutional arrangements throughout history that have contributed that have allowed the factory to function, and one of them is polygamy. >> host: polygamous societies which there are still a fair number around, the women

the latest one is [inaudible] the women of [inaudible] bend. these are about the women that made those wonderful quilts all over the world. alabama, the poorest county in the depression. the women made these quilts because they needed to keep her children warm and would stack them to make a mattress. they covered the tables with them, they used them for their children to crawl on when they would go outside and have picnics. they used the quilts for everything, small ones and large ones. now today, those quilts are going for 25,000 and more. it was my pleasure to go to g's bend and had the opportunity to quilt with them. my next picture book, i will share this with you and it is called never gotten. i would like to share it because this is something that had been in the process for about 20 years. i have been asking every west african that i have met, did you miss us? what i meant by that was are there stories in your culture that talk about the ones who were taken away? did you tell stories? did you sing songs, poetry, any remnant of anything i

dhaka about women's rights, the men and women altogether. is what we do in the university, my friends. let's recap for once to see how we can have an intact on american society. the society is open. it is ours if we want -- if we know how to make, and we have to begin exactly where we need to begin if the source of information. what kind of information we can give to the [applause] >> i want to address a couple of points. in issue the professor brought up. on the question of the showcase diversity there is the element brought up in terms of the humanity and the everyday issues that are important to us and that we share with fellow americans but also the diversity of the intellectual discourse and the way to respond to the common questions and i think one of the things i do at altmuslimah.com is that so much gender come in the shape of one being a press and being a violent. it's very black-and-white and supplied and to complicate the from perspective what we essentially do this showcase the discussion within the community about so many differ

by having women watch sad movies, these men were measurably turned off. they had lower testosterone levels and the parts of their brain that register sexual arousal were less active. to test this theory, we took this actress named jessica to a local gym here in new york city and asked her to cry on command. >> she's not actually upset at you. >> that's good. >> reporter: this guy admitted he did not like it very much. >> might be slightly annoyed. >> reporter: but this guy said there are some circumstances in which crying could actually work in a woman's favor. >> she's crying and start kissing me, that's different.

a lot of the women of working, a lot of the work is actually the women, is about ultimately increase the value in society and within their families, and so these things might change. but as it says today in these countries, the women have very little value and this comes from a long tradition and because it's essentially the our traditional societies and the women didn't work outside the house told -- >> host: they're also a cost to the parents because these are tough to pay -- >> guest: that's right. >> host: -- the family of the husband to take them out of their house. >> guest: you have to get them married, right? and you have to get them myriad so you have to invest in that, pay for that, and in india some of these payments can amount to several years worth of an income so this isn't just junk change. >> host: when you have in both of those countries is an equal number of boys and girls born, growing up to maturity and there is a pretty significant match the descent. >> guest: and the most all of consequences of this dynamic [inaudible] or a baby girl after birth. if i remember c

i mean, a lot of the women are working in the industrial zone. they are young women. that will, i think, ultimately increase their value in society and also increase value within their families. it might change, but as it stands today, women have very little value and this comes from a long tradition, and they are still very traditional societies in which women didn't work outside the household. >> host: they are a cost for the parents because they have to pay the family of the husband to take them out of their house. >> guest: the only value is as woman, you have to get them married. you have to invest and pay for that, and in india, sometimes the payments can be several years of a family's income. this is not just chump change. >> host: what you have in both countries is, you know, you would typically think there's an equal number of boys and girls born growing up to maturity and both countries there's a significant mismatch that is not random. >> guest: yeah, that's right. the most awful consequence of this dynamic is that families are deciding to abort a female fe