women were entitled to be here. >> joining together for another campaign. >> women opened a club in san francisco. it was called the votes for women club. if she could get the shopkeepers to have lunch, she could get them to be heard literature. the lunch room was a tremendous success. >> it was the way that people thought about women willing to fight for a successful campaign. what happened was, the social transformation increase the boundary of what was possible, out word. >> there were parades and rallies, door to door candidacies, reaching every voter in the state. >> the eyes of the nation were on california in 1911, when we all voted. it was the sixth and largest state in the nation to approve this. one decade later, we have full voting rights in the united states. helping newly enfranchised women, a new political movement was founded. >> starting in the 1920's, it was a movement created by the suffragettes moving forward to getting the right to vote. all of the suffragettes were interested in educating the new voters. >> non-partisan, not endorsing candidates >> -- endorsing cand

this is designed to protect women. president carter signed the document and send it to the senate foreign relations committee for a vote in 1980. to date, 31 years later, the united states is the only developed nation that has failed to ratify the treaty, putting us and the company of somalia, sudan, iran, and zimbabwe. this past month and the halls of congress, we have seen an attack on american women like never before. instead of a clear focus on the budget and job creation, there has been a concentrated effort to limit women's rights. we have had a major push in congress to redefine rape to only those women who could prove that they fought back. this would exclude many victims of date rape, children who were raped. we had a legislator from georgia who wants to change the legal term. he but the word to the accuser. victims of lesser crimes like burglaries would remain victims. in south dakota, the bill was proposed that would make it legal to murder a doctor who basically provided a portion care. it would make it leg

women play.layed a very critical role in ending the northern ireland troubles, in ending the civil wars in central america, in ending the liberian war that i just mentioned, in being part of peacemaking in other conflicts throughout the world. and so we have both an argument as to it being an important goal, but we also have evidence that points to tactics and strategies about how you achieve that goal. so i'm hopeful that we will get a broader discussion. and finally, i would say that when people set their own goals, norms, and values, and then they violate them, it provides an opening for a discussion not only coming from the outside, but from within. certainly, the scenes that we're seeing out of egypt today should be first and foremost distressing to egyptians and not to us or others before the egyptian people themselves. the promise, the beauty of the revolutionary aspirations that everyone watched unfold in tahrir square, the restraint of the security forces in how they responded, all of th

it marked the beginning of the women's equality movement in the united states. >> at that time, women were banned from holding property and voting in elections. >> susan b. anthony dedicated her life to reform. >> suffrage in the middle of the 19th century accomplished one goal, it was diametrically opposed to this idea. >> many feared it would be corrupted by politics. >> women in the 19th century had to convince male voters that having the vote would not change anything. that woman would still be devoted to the home, the family, that they would remain pure and innocent, that having the vote would not corrupt them. >> support gradually grew in state and local campaigns. >> leaders like ellen clark sgt come repeatedly stopping these meetings -- , repeatedly stopping these meetings as a politically active figure. doing everything they could to ground the campaign in domesticity. >> despite their efforts, the link made it tough whenever voters were in the big city. a specialist in francisco. >> the problem with san francisco is that women's suffrage as an idea was associated. >> susan b

women and war. a conversation with a passionate advocate who has made it her life's work empowering women in times of war. >> women's voices are crucial in creating lasting peace. >> mitchell: and charlie dag tahas the improbable story of the voices behind britain's top-selling holiday hit. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> mitchell: good evening. we begin in los angeles where for the past two nights a wave of arson has lit up the night sky. so far there have been three dozen separate blazes and now local investigators have called in the federal government to help. national correspondent lee cowan is in los angeles ands what the latest. >> reporter: it's become a terrifying predawn pattern-- for the past two nights, more than 30 vehicles in and around hollywood have been exploding in flames. >> i screamed for everyone to get out of their apartment. >> reporter: all the cars intentionally firebombed, say authorities, for reasons unknown. >> we want to g

women's network. i was invited to come, and i think we wait -- we went to -- [unintelligible] not in district 10, but i plug it anyway. [laughter] it is in district 6, but it is read on the border. close enough. absolutely. i was able to bless the union, and i am so happy that you guys are still growing together and strong and in love. [applause] it is an incredible honor to be here amongst so many women, so many beautiful leaders. mayormerilee, i just want to say thank you. she has been my sister for years. before we knew each other, she worked on the merits network. we need to get more women on boards and commissions, as well as elected leaders. because when we have zero women at the table, that is one change starts to happen. [cheers and applause] i also want to acknowledge all the commissioners in the room today. thank you for all of your service. thank you very much, everyone. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, malia. first of all, i want to thank susie and her whole family who are here. you kno

but just how women will fare remains to be seen. >> this is women finding courage to get out there and change that culture. no one is going to change. that they have to find that within themselves. >> saudi women won the right to vote although their calls for the right to drive have not been answered. the nobel peace prize was awarded jointly to three women: ellen johnson sirleaf, leymah gbowee and tawakkol karman "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work". and the world hit a milestone with seven billion people now inhabiting the earth. >> so, what do you thinkfuls the most important story for women in 2011? >> let's be candid. from a male dominated recovery to wholesale attacks on reproductive choice, this was annashoribbilous an expression by queen liz both. horrible year. >> i think the story in the u.s. at least for women really has it was for everybody is continues to be the stagnant economy, not a job recovery. i think that is going to continue to be the story we head in to 2012 and election. >> i

black women.t to affect the things that impact black women, black women are the ones who have been on the front lines of social justice movements as well and also because so many families are headed by black mothers that if we don't deal the way gender traumas affect them, then we're creating a further crisis in our community. one thing is gender dynamic, right? not only how -- how men respond to it. how is this playing out in popular culture? >> do a lot of work with boys and men around the country. i've spoken to thousands of men at high schools, colleges, charity settings, sports settings all over the country and there's a lot of defensiveness. a lot of guys are very very, defensive and there's a lot of deflection, mark. there's always pushing the issue back on to the woman as if the woman is the source of the problem and that we can't be several-critical. we can't think about our own attitudes, our own behaviors. that deflection does not allow us to be several-critical. it does not allow us to

they do women's policy summit in september. for gin and harman, former director of the human rights commission, and galena -- helena. thank you so much for joining us. >> our next award goes to the unsung heroine, carol ito. she is bed a passionate advocate for women of all levels of the community. she was one of the founding members of the national asian pacific women's movement in the late 1970's, which resulted in the development of the local bay area group, pacific asian american women. the have been running 30 years. she recently completed three terms as a san francisco airport commissioner. please join me in welcoming carol ito. [applause] >> thank you. i am very humbled this afternoon to join all of you. i want to thank shelly's committee and everyone who made this happen. i am honored to share many of these honors. many of us have work together for the various causes and policy changes for this great city. i must say that there are many unsung heroines in this room, and my guests at table three are many of my own person

i've seen women o.d. >> more than 80% of the women at valley state are in for drug-related offenses. >> i used to use heroin, started at 16, using it. >> i'm addicted to crack cocaine. >> heroin. >> i've been using since i was 12 years old. >> substance abuse is an underlying factor of most of the crimes committed by the women here because in order to support their drug habits, they end up committing burglaries, petty thefts, various crimes that will result in a felony conviction. and as a result they end up in prison. >> what you mean you need some more food? starving like what? >> like i'm eight months pregnant. >> you're what? >> eight months pregnant. >> let me see. oh, you are, aren't you? >> gloria henry is the warden at valley state. she's run this prison since 2002 and has been working with women in corrections for more than 20 years. >> i have always felt like i have a responsibility to try and return them to the community better than they were when they came in. because you have a lot of these women who come in here, from the time they were little girls, they had nobody to

that women owned their own homes, that women had use of their own funds, that women could function withoutt wasn't as if that was scandalous. >> and yet, the gospels tell us that she was unusual, following him all the way to jerusalem and staying to bear witness to his death. >> one of the intriguing things about the gospel accounts, the new testament, is the fact that at the time of the crucifixion, the guys all run away. and that becomes a very interesting matter. it seems to indicate that, in fact, in terms of the rising of faith and the continuation of the movement, women played a primary role, and in particular, mary magdalene. ♪ >> in the gospel of john, mary magdalene is the first person to whom jesus appears after he rises from the dead. >> so there's this poignant moment of epiphany, this moment of recognition. she -- he says, "mariam," and she says, "rabuni." and she grabs him. and he says, don't cling to me. don't cling to the jesus of the past. we need to go forward into a new, brighter future, for you and for the male disciples. >> and then, she disappears from the scene, only

but we are women, and we're women of color. and we are leaders. i do not want any of you to ever forget that. because we're leaders, we always have people behind us that support us to make sure that the doors are open for us, that we're given the supports that we need, and that we're recognized on a regular basis. because we need to be recognized, because we do not get recognized enough, not only as filipinas but as women the biggest a proud to have had the opportunity to work side-by- side with this person is our city administration and now under him in the lee administration. my boss has been fantastic, a true supporter of women, a true leader around immigrate families and a true leader of around the needs of our committees today as a proud to work for mayor lee. welcome to city hall. he is here to say a few words and to welcome all of you here, because you are here from all over the country. but you not see another major as wonderful as mayor lee and how supportive he has been to be filipino community. so please join me in welcoming our mayor,

women. so governments have started to force the issue. >> lo and behold, when the quotas are there -- they find a woman. that's happened in norway. it's happening in france. it's happening in spain and it's happening in many places. >> to avoid quotas, several german companies say they'll increase female board participation to 30% by 2013. chancellor angela merkel doesn't support quotas, but warns if there's not serious progress, the government may be forced to intervene. not all european countries use quotas. some countries are just adopting suggestions for good governance, so called soft measures. >> i think soft quotas are showing some effectiveness, but maybe the growths are at a slower rate. some are doing some more hard measures. and the quotas that have hardest measures have been norway, where you would be delisted if you didn't have 40% of ladies in your company. and in spain, if in 2015 you don't have them, then you could not be a supplier to the government. those are kind of penalt

its 10,000 women campaign. coca-cola's five by 20 campaign aims to post -- claims to support 5 million women entrepreneurs worldwide by 2020. just this week, walmart announced that it will use its purchasing power to support women entrepreneurs by doubling the amount of goods it will buy from women-owned businesses globally to $20 billion by 2016. [applause] in an addition, wal-mart will invest $100 million to help women develop their job skills, including women who work on their farms and factories overseas that are walmart suppliers. now, these programs are just the start of the type of permanent shift we need to see in how businesses worldwide invest in women. now, i do not underestimate the difficulty of measuring in what i call the participation age. legal changes require political will. cultural and behavioral changes require social well. all of this requires leadership by governments, civil society, and the private sector. and even when countries pursue an aggressive structural reforms to get more women

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i'll see this with young women. so often young women who go to schools with boys and girls and don't experience gender bias. even kind of making all the way through college without much of a gender identity and in much of the workforce. all the sudden the roles of gender or maybe they haven't even made it that far, they have the first baby. as on my best friend like to say, the baby is yours. no matter how wonderful and fabulous and egalitarian your spouse is you just find out how powerful these continuing gender roles are in the context. and then all of a sudden on one class. i would get a e-mails for my students seven years. yes. you're right about that. so i don't have an answer except to say that on a teacher. and so i think the single most important thing that we do is as nuns as mentally as possible provide our children whether their biological children of a chore of our community with as much information about our history as is humanly possible. and then they will build new buildings. it will craft new projec

guest: we've been in conversation with many women, young women and women of all ages from the arab springountries. and while the peaceful revolutions that have happened are mostly peaceful revolutions are i think are wonderful sign and a wonderful opening for all the citizens in those countries, i think the most difficult thing is that as soon as the revolution occurs, there are elements of society of men that try to come in and enforce their view. i think this is a very fragile time for women. i think what secretary of clinton is doing and what she will likely talk about tomorrow is that area in particular hand how we need to again support the women in those countries, help them have the skills, keep the international attention on those areas so that as new constitutions are being written, women are not left out of that. and in whatever way our government will have a strong presence in egypt, libya, and all of the other places in the middle east. so we can do something good with our assistance dollars there. host: the website is women thrive.org. you also have a place on facebook. thank

princeton didn't admit women until 1969.tead, she went to bryn mawr, a prestigious women's college outside philadelphia, where she was again elected president of the student body and was active in the civil rights movement. you marched in selma, right? >> in the spring of my freshman year, the selma campaign was gaining momentum, and my then boyfriend and i said, "we have to go to selma. we just can't stand here and not speak out and not say, 'we care and this matters.'" >> susie: it was a very violent time. weren't you scared? >> i was scared. i was very scared. but somehow, when you're that age, you think you're immortal, slightly anyway. and i just felt, "this is defining of who i am, and i... i have to do this." >> susie: after graduating from bryn mawr, faust received her ph.d in american civilization and became a professor at the university of pennsylvania, where she won two major teaching awards. she was also gaining a reputation as a historian's historian, writing highly regarded books that took a fresh look at centr

women and politics.brought together a range of people whose research we knew well and convened for a two-day conference at notre dame. after which, at that conference we discussed all the mange scripts that constitute the chapters of these books, of this book, and had some commentary about it and discussion, and then put together as an edited collection which cambridge university press published in 2008. >> described the role of women described in this book. >> there are several in the book to let me tell you first what we are not doing in this book. we're not looking at public policy, we're not looking at women in the executive because even at the -- even in 2008 there was not yet a major to a candidate of a major political party in the united states. so very few women at the executive level which meant the research wasn't there yet to really have a good discussion but finally we didn't address women in the judiciary. so what we addressed, we at look at behavior of women as voters, the behavior women as