and the question was asked whether women believed that a women's movement was necessary. and there was surprisingly strong support for a new women's movement. and then we asked what should be the priorities-- what are the issues that need to be addressed urgently? and we were really quite stunned that domestic and sexual violence should be addressed, basically a statistical dead heat with equal pay for equal work, which has been the mainstay of women's concerns. >> hinojosa: but, you know, the interesting thing is that when you are involved with activist women, the issue of equal pay is front and center. but it's not like you're meeting activist women and they're saying, "we are really concerned about the issue of sexual violence." >> well, this is a ver... i'm glad that you raised that discrepancy. because this is the reason why the center for the advancement of women was formed and founded a little more than a decade ago. because we realized that a lot of the data, a lot of the assumptions that those of us who are activists, who have worked on the front lines for a very

women were not men and women -- the new normal. youthnisia, a wonderful activist who comes from a family of activists. when she went to school outside of our country she was denied access back in. she was able finally after the revolution to get back. she is a dynamo. >> alyse nelson is our guest, president and ceo of the organization by whole voices -- vital voices, and the book i have in my hand, "vital voices: the power of women leading change around the world." the forward isy by hillary clinton and we will talk about this is bang clinton -- mrs. clanton when we are back. >> "this is america" is made possible by the national education association, the nation's largest advocate for children and public education. poongsan corporation, forging a higher global standard. the ctc foundation, afo communications, and the rotondaro family trust. >> alyse, beijing, 1995, a big u.n. conference, the fourth, i think they said, which was a women's conference. and you where there. how did you get to go there? you were in school at the time. >

which is training women to run for office, training women in corporate america. and really looking at the media that doesn't show enough women in leadership. you can't be what you can't see. and if women are not shown as leaders, they don't see them in corporate america and they don't see them. and men see them, and so they think it's normal for it to be done. i work across race and gender and class because if you don't work across those three things, you don't get a great deal done either. what i've found, though, in this country is this is an auspicious time in the world and this country for women's leadership. a very auspicious time. what is needed is women. but you have to know the time you're in. and i'm afraid we will not use it because there's so much pushback and fear about women coming into power, and i'm thinking that we need to think about the business we're in. for instance, i could tell you all the stats because we've benchmarked women's leadership for years, and america does believe it's a fair country. it doesn't want to think in this country that

more american women as decision makers. >> one step would be to elect more women, to have more womenn leadership everywhere, not just in the political structure but also in the private sector. it does make a difference. again, in these other countries, especially scandinavia, they have the highest percentage of women in their parliament. i mean, sweden is at 45 percent and we are at 17 percent. but even argentina, a macho latin american country, is at 40 percent; so one of the great puzzles that we have to solve is how to support more women in decision-making positions. >> s is she right or wrong? >> i think she's right. fantastic book also, because it puts us in stark contrast with countries that too many americans look down upon in terms of their policies. an interesting statistic is, 53% of people who enter the workforce in this country are women. 53%. but only 17% are making over $100,000. women making over $100,000 a year so there is just no question that something happens in that period where women don't advance their careers and can we just once and for all put aside the notio

it is jobs that we consider women's work -- "women's work" is yon paid. when you connect these things up, traditional jobs that we think of traditionally as being women's jobs are totally undervalued in our society. that's why in every session of congress since 1996, i have introduced the fair pay act along with congresswoman eleanor holmes norton which would require employers to pay equal pie for equivalent gorks equal pay -- equivalent jobs. equal pay for equivalent jobs. this bill will require equal pay for jobs that are the same in skill and work conditions. now, you might say, well, that sounds way out. how can we do that? well, in 1982, the state of minnesota implemented a pay equity plan for its state employees. they found that women were segregated into historically female-dominated jobs, that thee jobs paid 20% less than mail-dominated jobs. so the state of minnesota instituted this law, pay equity wage adjustments were phased in over four years, leading to an average pay increase of $200 per month for women in female-dominated jobs. the wage gap

and so, they are actually desperate to keep their women, because they're not moving women up. so, there is an incentive for the companies. but what they have found is, women will tell you they are mentored to death even though mentoring helps but they're not sponsored. some of the best companies are starting sponsorship programs, which is different, in that somebody's advocating for you when you're not in the room, pushing you up the ladder, and those programs seem to be working. and what's also working, as women get in there, there's so much research now that it is over the top. around the difference women make and about how women are now at least as good as or better than men on every aspect of leadership that keeps coming out review," et cetera. and men are saying it as well as women. it's moving. it's just slow. >> i can say that in business, when the discussion becomes about affirmatively providing women opportunity, that there's a certain surge of interest that women have for the conversation, obviously, but men tend to wither under some kind of light that appears negati

then by the way, conservative women, moderate women, libertarian, traditionally religious women left out, not at that table. it's an unwritten rule only the women from the radical left have the right to interpret the lives of women they have a whole body of scholarship developed from a very, very narrow range of views and opinions and so forth. on many campuses young women are in a patriarchal society where girls are shortchanged in school, robb of their self-esteem and adolescence and then channeled into low-paying fields once in the workplace cheated out of 25% of their salary they face an invisible barrier and all sorts of forces that hold them down and keep them back and out of the higher echelons of power. now this picture just doesn't fit reality. it's distorted. the false claims the support that have been repeated so many times. they've taken on this aura of truth. at many times i will be looked in on the campus in some young women have had one too many courses in women's studies and it's as though they have been deeply drank the kool-aid. they are genuinely intelligent since

rejoicing afghan women are the bush administration with the issue of the oppression of women now women were oppressed a long time and you never heard anybody talk about it but when the u.s. wanted to invade all the women so much the president. bush. said military. and women are no longer imprisoned in their home they can listen to music and teach their daughters without fear of punishment the fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women the media talking to the whole country saying how we are going to liberate the women of afghanistan. can liberate their people can liberate. and you certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun. unfortunately now that the recent permanent civil war that we were once again imprisoned by the fear. and things are going back where it somewhat. was when i was fourteen years old now i have six children. are stuff that is twenty four my marriage was like like many at that marriage it wasn't forced marriages but that was ok and. i used to say that accidentally one has that this. is what is supposed to. he believes what mr rig

the women submit there, the most powerful women summit, said i had two sisters and they both were smarter than me, and one of them's here. and he said, they both actually had the same amount of love from the family as me, but they didn't have the same opportunity. and he said, america's gotten some place, but do you imagine where america would have gotten if we used all of our resources, including the resources of women? and, i mean, i think when the richest, most successful man in america is willing to say that, that other men, actually, could say it, too. [ applause ] >> okay. it looks like we have a question right over here. >> yeah, hi. very great discussion, but i'm looking at also going back to childhood and onward. do you think there's sufficient focus on that aspect of bringing more women into, i mean, into the business workplace and pleases of boards and stuff? do you think there's enough attention on that and if not, what would your recommendations be? >> in childhood? >> from childhood on, i mean, you're talking about now, but you know, thinking ahead, to the next generation, t

black women in particular. there's a deafening silence in black america with regard to the obama white house. and this administration. and what they ought to be doing about poverty across the board. to my mind, the president hasn't used the word poverty enough. but what we can not debate is that there has been a deferential silence on the part of black people, and black women specifically. i love barack obama, i love michelle obama, i love the two kids, i love all of that, but there's been a deathly silence about poverty among black women. >> when you look at melanie campbell, and people have a thing friday and she talked about the voting patterns of african-american women. we are the most loyal democrats that there are. we voted overwhelmingly, 97%, someone said for president obama. now having done that, what have you done for me, lately? that's really a question that we have to ask. but i think there's a schizophrenia in the african-american community about president obama. everybody loves him. i've got to lo

when people say why are women, indian women taking the lead? we have a lot of entrepreneurs. we have small businesses. one of the greatest challenges that we face in our tribal communities is access, access. we have so rural and isolated, it's really difficult to get from point a to point b. and then you factor in poverty. and then that makes access even more difficult to get to a grocery store to make sure your food dollars go further. to get tot a town to see a specialist. so when we look at where indian people live, we are looking at isolation and large miles between point a and b. that makes it difficult many times. in the city, you have subways and mass transit. in our rural communities we don't have that. yes, poverty exists and has existed for many, many years in o our driebl communities. and it will continue to exist unless some changes are made unless opportunities are made for young women to go back to schools. we change the snap laws, there are many federal programs that may look good, but actually when you start to implement those p

many women executive, how many women, period. what kind of benefits do you have for people who have children. there's this very complex package that you're certified through in order to be a "b" corporation, but i think it does something really important. i think it announces the presence of business that's actually built to achieve good. not businesses doing good on the side which i argue is the case in many corporate social responsibility examples, big companies doing the same old same old can take a tiny portion of profit and put it into something really pretty and green and clean and exciting and progressive as a distraction from their core operations which actually don't have a lot of integrity. but "b" corporations are designed to have that value proposition sewn in and a lot of the leaders in the "b" corporation world are women. and so it's a really sort of phenomenal community to play in. the last thing i want to say to wrap up is when i first got into this sort of space of progressive business and particularly the terrai

i said they were not women. what i was trying to say is communicate that this is my personal conviction that women look at leadership differently. it is the value systems. for me, being a leader is about serving the people. it has never entered my mind they could rule, but that i would rule and serve. that's what i talked about it being a love affair. it is the principal of stewardship. that is what i was trying to do. people in malawi know that without having any motive, i worked with the people on the grass roots. my agenda was to empower women and in particularly i was coming from an abusive marriage and decided nobody else was going to take that and go that path. if there was anything i could do to change the situation, i was willing to do it. i went flat out. by the time i went into this position, everyone knew what i had to do before. i fought for the women's and children's rights. how much of them were on the roads. so i believe that being a woman leader is the best a country can have. now in africa, fort

republican women democratic women.ependent women saying it is no time in this country to be messing with women's access to birth control to cancer screenings and in fact, women in this country need more access to healthcare, not less. >> joy: okay so cecile. thank you very much. cecile richards from planned parenthood. keep up the good fight. >> thank you. >> joining me now a soldier for women. can you believe if a woman soldier is raped the government will not pay for they are abortion. this governor is trying to do something bo that. it's great to have jean shaheen on the show. if a woman soldier gets raped, what happens to her? >> well, unfortunately for the over 200,000 women who are in the military serving on active duty, if they're the victims of rape or increst incest, they do not have the same right to healthcare services reproductive healthcare services as all other civilians. and as all other government employees who are covered by federal health insurance. they don't have the same rights as women in federal

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

one is the role of women in society. the vatican taken a strong stance against advancing the role of women in society whether birth control or other issues. the other issue is extreme income and inequality. the nuns stay we want to make sure that people have access to a good life whereas you see the vatican operating alone saying, let's keep women in their place. and so, go nuns, team nuns, i'm on it. >> i think the nuns if they are going to take a bus tour opposing the budget, they are politicizing the catholic church and that's wrong. [ multiple speakers ] >> the bishops themselves, priests themselves, from the pulpit, throughout the united states, telling people what to do on the contraceptive notion and the nuns -- we are talking - auto question is -- >> that's the teaching of the church. >> please. the question is, it is a very serious question. how does an authoritarian ihierarchal organization, this church, respond to dissent within its ranks when these are people who are clearly still very much with them? that is

she founded the women's tennis association, the women's sports foundation, the women's tennis magazine, and co-founded an environmental and -- initiative for the sports industry. in 2009, she was awarded the presidential medal of freedom, the highest civilian honor. she was the first female athlete to be honored with the medal of freedom and was presented with the or by president obama. we would hear from professor nancy hogshead, a three-time gold medalist of stunning. she has testified before congress numerous times on the topic of gender athletics. as co-share of -- she is co- chair of the american bar association committee on the rights of women. she's received awards for her commitment to athletics, including being listed as "sports illustrated" magazine as one of the most influential people in the 35-year history of title ix. she received an award and the alliance of women coaches in 2012. we're joined by may carol dennison, a chemical engineer, a physician, a scientist, a teacher, and astronauts. she was the first african- american woman to travel into space on the space shuttle

and women's rights and women's equality in the workplace if nowhere else. do you think that that's going to play a big in this election or are the republicans right that nobody cares oh i think their best again to estimating the power of the women's vote you know there has been a big gender gap in favor of democrats you know since the early eighty's and in every election and you know women really care about economic issues and equal pay is the most fundamental economic issue there it is because it adds up over the years if you're making less than the other person i managed to in the exact same job by the time you retire you're going to get less retirement so this is not a complicated issue it's you know you do the numbers and they don't add up equally for men and women and this legislation that's pending can really help address the great new feminist agenda and madeline can thank you so much for being thank you tom pleasure very nice to meet you in person women have a lot at stake in this election that kind of taking back america means returning to a nation

women's proof talk about women having been marginalized. they turned around and found a movement that marginalized the majority of their sisters. i do encourage you to begin to organized around women's issues. support groups like the clear blue institute and organizations on your own campus. demand a place in the women's center and that you be heard at have a voice. there is a battle to take back feminism from the feminists. it is too important to be left in their hands. >> somebody just mentioned -- agree with everything but if you look at modern feminism today, it is driven by self. women need to do what is best for them. i'm not ready to have a child the decision should be made to have a child and it is my right to decide. if i'm pregnant i should be able to abort the child and have opportunities and it plays into this idea that if you are a mother full time at home, you heard from one of the feminists a couple months ago you never need to work today in your life because they don't respect stay at home moms. you need to be fulfilled to b

, and love women. that is the model. a person, a friend and a colleague. even in my religion, islam, it lies in the field. it shows how important a mother, how important a woman, how important it is that islam honors a woman. it is the first religion to have their own property. it is the second to fort -- second to first religion that can divorce the man, who can give you money to leave and sexual needs, for six months. so, she can divorce him. it shows how islam really respects women's rights. >> if i hear you correctly, that is pretty well spelled out in the koran? >> yes. >> if i also hear you correctly , different countries in different cultures may have different standards as far as men and women are concerned? is that correct? >> i mean, this is what i mean. islam is the same as america. but you have to differentiate between the religion of islam and the culture in one country. bless say in afghanistan, under the taliban rule, where are women who are leaving their homes? it is not islam. they hav

or charge women more simply because they are women.e provided in all individual health care plans. it also expands insured benefits for children like dental and vision needs. and older children can stay insured on their parents plans until the age of 26. and for the benefit of family planning, all insurance companies will have to cover birth control. without a co pay. these things are good for mothers parenting with a partner and very good for mothers who are the heads of households without a partner. and it insures their illnesses or those of their children won't bankrupt the family. maybe having it all got a little bit easier, but is having it all the point? the question suggests that women should always be giving more to their work or to their families, more to anyone, but themselves. so when we debate if women can have it all, we should start by asking if it is even the right question. with me is joanne of punditmom.com, msnbc contributor joy reid of grio.com, political commentatorç nancy joan, and rebecca is here with us as well.

conservative women, moderate women, a libertarian women, traditionally religious women, left out, no room at the table. only women from the hard left have the right to set the agenda. it is a very narrow range of opinions and views. on many campuses women are taught that they live in a patriarchal, oppressive society where girls are shortchanged in school and then channeled into low-paying fields. once in the workplace they are cheated out of 25% of their salary. they face visible barriers and all sorts of forces that hold them down, keep them back, keep them out of the higher echelons of power. this picture does not fit reality. it is distorted. the false claims that supported have been repeated so many times they have taken on an aura of truth. i was -- well, many times i will be lecturing on the campus and a young woman will come up who has had one too many courses in women's studies and it is as if they have deeply drunk the kool- aid. they're generally intelligent, sensitive, socially concerned young women, but they have come to take on this grim feminist worldview as absolute t

insurance companies to charge women more because they are women.n of this country need to mobilize and understand. we need to get that word out that women in this country are helped by this health care law. young people are helped by this health care law. seniors are helped. millions of people will be helped by this health care law. we have not done a good job -- we could, and that is where you come in. the power of netroots is a mason. you did that when we dealt with the susan g. coming issue. remember that? the mobilization, the education is key. health-care costs in this country will not go down unless we change and continue to push for the kind of reforms that were really enable everybody in our country to have health care. that is a right. >> as a follow up -- a thank- you. it will be an issue if the supreme court does strike it down. to believe is right for congress to take it up again? >> we need to. there are millions of people in our country who otherwise -- a 40 million people in our country without any kind of health care. i think we nee

women who are affected.it hurts their families, their children, their husbands, and has a ripple effect throughout our economy. as governor, i signed a law to prohibit gender-based pay discrimination in new hampshire. and to require equal pay for equal work. and the year before that law was signed, women in new hampshire made 69% of their male colleagues' wages. today they make 78%. when president kennedy signed the equal pay act into law in 1963, women made less than 60 cents for each dollar earned by men. today, we make 77 cents. so we made some progress, but clearly we skill still have a long way to go and a lot of work to do. i recently heard from a woman named marie in new boston, new hampshire about her experience with pay discrimination. and she wrote i worked for many years in a male-dominated company where the fresh out of college boys were paid substantially more than i was for the same position. she continued to recount that she actually trained these same men to do their jobs, and yet she still w

yet here but islam does prevent some things for women only women cannot see. in the middle of an assembly of men. furthermore women are obliged to wear the huge job. or if they cover themselves there aren't any problems. lastly women are not allowed to become judges on. the religion of islam doesn't allow women to undertake a role in which you have to give our judgments. these laws are respected so there aren't any problems. we need to teach the community that they're right struggling but that today i mean i think. that's. what. most in afghanistan the majority of women married below the age of sixteen. they don't have the right to divorce they have the right to what's called a separation it's really hard for them to get where is a man just needs to say divorce three times and that's it he says he said to his wife the only one before now afghan women asking for divorce was never even heard of. i don't want to. know in days the women come to us to ask us to resolve marital issues. sometimes we succeed sometimes we do not. point a couple gets divorced but we don

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women who are affected.r children, their husbands, and has a ripple effect throughout our economy. as governor, i signed a law to prohibit gender-based pay discrimination in new hampshire. and to require equal pay for equal work. and the year before that law was signed, women in new hampshire made 69% of their male colleagues' wages. today they make 78%. when president kennedy signed the equal pay act into law in 1963, women made less than 60 cents for each dollar earned by men. today, we make 77 cents. so we made some progress, but clearly we skill still have a long way to go and a lot of work to do. i recently heard from a woman named marie in new boston, new hampshire about her experience with pay discrimination. and she wrote i worked for many years in a male-dominated company where the fresh out of college boys were paid substantially more than i was for the same position. she continued to recount that she actually trained these same men to do their jobs, and yet she still wasn't paid at the same rate.

i mean women love looking at other women and judging them too i mean we all love looking at pictures let's just be honest you know we all love being judge mental yes he's not going to know people early on in dating like. not high variance very like but i mean i guess it's the amount of time that people actually spend i can only get like all that myself all day every now and then and you know get stuck on a little slide show i'm not going to lie especially if it's you know legs like some like brianna and her cool new outfits i think it's all of the things that could have been. yesterday if you know if i hadn't got caught on that damn lie joe you know if all those people who crashed that web site hadn't been there deciding which girl was hotter so much you're going to volunteer to orphanages and so you're going to curing cancer. ok let's. on my other favorite topics taco bell. i don't know why i just love terms of like gross bad fast food places to go to but you know recently they've been on this whole thing where they introduce the new taco with the derecho taco shell which is totally

from the health of women to women infertility. invitro fertilization, or ivf gives older women the same chance of having a baby as younger women. that according to a new study. researchers found that woman an above 30 years old has a 30-40% chance chance of having's baby. but success rise with the use of donor eggs from younger women. the study involved 250,000 women who tried to conceive using ivf. critics say ivf is expensive, the barrage of hormones can harm women's health in other ways and interestingly, children conceived with donor eggs have some of the same psychological issues as adopted ones. >> can you please explain to me why an older woman, 43 plus, 50 maybe, would go through pregnancy with a donor egg who is going to come out with a child who is not biologically related in anyway instead of adopting which would be a whole lot easier? >> you are asking the wrong person. i am absolutely opposed to this. i think it is insane. i do. i think you make a choice. your choice is to defer having children. and you take your risk

to democratic women. notice the flattering pictures of the female republicans compared to the very unflattering pictures of democrats point of pictures simple republican women are better than democratic women basically because they're hotter than democratic women you see in the republican mind women are only valuable to republican men when they're attractive and they become unattractive when they're speaking their mind about protecting women's rights or the rights of working people or even the rights of minorities so you don't so much hear such things coming out of the mollies republican women especially over on roger ailes is g.o.p. t.v. i mean if you ever watched fox so-called news the point is if we want our nation to be all it can be women must be full members of society and have full power in both the political and the economic realms and because they are women and it's a perspective that's crucial to our national debate in fact other countries of figured this out are very united states now ranks sev

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of chore, women and children. and it was to provide a network of services, department of labor for training. education and training is the key. it is about jobs, let's help people get a job and young people have opportunities. in this recovery, what we have seen is more participation on the part of women because they have fallen out of the work force. they have been stagnant in terms of their wages. there's the gap. we have the 80 cents on the dollar per male and it is harder when it is minority or african-american women. it is like 70 cents on the dollar for latina and i would say our efforts have been to put more people in to new kinds of jobs, renewable energy, i.t. and stretching our imagination to put funding in to programs that didn't exist in the last decade. i have to give credit to those folks that helped to support the funding for these programs, but now, in my opinion, is not the time to take away the safety net. there are folks in washington that would like to see us go back because they want the defic