. >> women will yell. women try to human man nice human rights so i know it's penetrated the world culture. >> what would you say if you don't under up running for president? >> hello, i'm bonnie erbe. welcome to the special edition of "to the contrary." this week an interview with former secretary of state hillary clinton. i sat down with her to talk about her incredible legacy for women and girls. >> you have changed the world for women and girls. where did your passion for this issue come from? >> i think it came from my childhood. it probably came from learning about the difficult childhood my mother had and how important it was for girls to be given the same opportunities as boys. i think it came from my own experience as a kind of tomboy, playing in the neighborhood and hearing every so often, well, you know, girls can't play. it probably was something that was really a part of the atmosphere that i grew up in. and yet my parents, both my mother and my father, never made distinctions between me or my

women do? not really, these are the gaps by party. there's a 20-point gap among republican women, among democrats 15 points. so it's really not about party. if you get to the pool of potential candidates, if you're relatively successful lawyer, business person, educator, political activist, you know, party isn't the explanation if you get there to that point. so what are the explanations? i'm going to quickly -- we have seven explanations sort of we present inside a policy report last year, i'm going to go through them quite quickly with you. okay. reason number one, women are substantially more likely to perceive bias in the electoral arena, and they're more likely to be perceived at highly competitive. these men and women are in the exact same areas, the women are more like, oh, the congressional race is highly competitive. so there's a perception it's very competitive and there'll be bias against them. now, neither of those might be particularly true, but that perception discourages you from

schakowsky: violence is violence is violence and women are women are women. for the second year in a row, the republicans have advanced legislation that not only excludes additional protections for battered immigrant women and battered tribal women and battered gay women, protections that are included in the bipartisan senate bill, but they've advanced a bill that actually rolls back the central protection that are already the law of the land. we've heard from law enforcement, victims and victim service providers on the need to pass the improvements included in the bipartisan senate bill. and last week more than 1,300 organizations who represent and support millions of victims nationwide join together and said to bring the senate bill to the house floor for, quote, a vote as speedly as possible. we need to pass the senate-passed legislation so that victims of domestic and sexual violence don't have to wait a minute longer and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from california reserves, and the gentlewoma

of women in it. because we think in tech so much at least i mean i think my generation and moving forward even most of the businesses we're thinking of that we want to do wouldn't be possible if it weren't for the internet but we just think, how do we do things on the internet, right? and so it's something that we can't really help and i think that most people aren't making a conscious choice to be in tech. >> calvin launched a non-profit to help train high school girls in life skills and computer skills. because the world is so technologically focused, she wants black women and girls to know their way around. >> well i think some knowledge of coding is important for everyone. especially women and girls because people often look at you and think you don't know how to do what you're doing. i can get by on coding well enough to stay up till 4:00 a.m. fixing my website, or to be able to look when someone is building something for me and sort of check to see what they're doing and how to figure it out. e

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

we have women and veterans, too. some of them were out with female engagement teams in afghanistan with 120 guys that they call my guys were my brothers. they have encountered come back and they had people killed and were suffering. the minutes and came home, because that was not on paper, they said, that unit could not cut me orders. i had to immediately go back to my real units. i was over there with them. the guys were all morning together. they were being given certain treatment and put through a process that happens when your battle but the skills in front of you and they were not a part of that. that is a terrible way to treat our soldiers. i thought it was enlightening to unity debate about attacks versus -- attached versus the organically in the unit. that is not only upsetting, but it is not a way to treat our troops. the last one i wanted to talk about is the game playing one on assisting people work. when i got into this area, i learned it was not just a sign versus attached. it was in support of, temporar

the idea of empowering women, educating women.undations for lasting peace. and my concern, of course, is that the united states gets weary of being in afghanistan, it's not worth it, let's leave. and laura and i believe that if that were to happen, women would suffer again. and we don't believe that's in the interest of the united states or the world to create safe haven for terrorists and stand by and watch women's rights be abused. >> that's a noted patriot george w. bush for the u.s. to stay in afghanistan. and i wanted to play that clip for you from the american perspective discussion of women's rights in afghanistan have been built up from the military occupation and intervention there. from your perspective, how do you hear that? is he right, do you agree with george w. bush? >> to be honest, i wish he was right. there's so many elements or layers to the problem that you just cannot -- i think it's naive of president bush in afghanistan to say if we leave the women would suffer. unfortunately, the women have suffered with th

[speaking foreign language] >> because they were women. because they were women. this could have been anywhere. and was. for she got fired for being too beautiful. fined for drinking after he was raped. a serious offer to marry her rapist. got told it was legitimate but not enforceable. this could have been anywhere. they could do such a thing when the girls go for fire wood. step into a lonely man's car. drink a little too much at the college party. wake up with their uncle's finger inside. run from the screaming machetes and guns. taken at sunrise, get a bullet in the brain for learning the alphabet. be stoned for falling in love. be burned for seeing the future. i am done cataloging these horrors. two million women raped and tortured. one out of three. a woman raped every minute. every second. one out of two. one out of five. the same. one. one. one. i am done counting. and recounting. it is time to tell a new story. it needs to be our story. it needs to be outrageous and unexpected. it needs to lose control in the middle. it needs to be sexy. and in our hips a

republican women that is, there have been some democrat women. we're the first republican women, so there is a big push, not only in our state but i think across the country to try and recruit more women to run for office. >> brooks wants to see more women in the congress, but she says it may not be for everyone. >> we hope to be role models ane people to think about running but be very practical about what it takes. it does take a toll on families and it can take a toll on finances for families. and so those are things that i think we as women need to share with each other but yet we need to encourage them to run because we are very much underrepresented in congress i think in both parties. and so we want to keep a focus on that and i certainly want to help republican women think about running for office. >> brooks also wants to reach across the aisle to get the know all the women serving with her. >> i think the message of the voters that sent to the new members of the 113th congress is they want people to work on these great problems that this

i have this problem. >> women writing about women. there's nothing -- >> and successful women. >> yeah, right. >> but it's very hard to make a larger comment. the news is genderized. into soft news and hard news. 10eses it into feminism news stories and masculine stories, again rallities, statistics, conclusion. everything about the media tends to be some what polarized. her book which is not saying either/or but and is arriving in a polarized culture and therefore maybe misinterpreted. and i had this experience with revolution from within because i was also talking about internal reflections of external barrier swons what is the misinterpretation that is taking place. >> that instead of-- that they are thinking either/or so they are saying well, if she is saying that women should try harder than it must be women's fault if they're not doing well. in fact what she is saying is the external barriers are real and terrible and we have to, you know, and they have created internal barriers we have to be aware of. >> now where does ann marr

women of all ages. here to tell us about their upcoming annual, madame c.j. walker, one of my favorite events. we welcome back cathy adams. hey, cathy. >> thank you. >> it's a pleasure to have you back here. you're always up to fabulous things, my dear. and looking fabulous, i might add. >> thank you. >> i like the black-and-white motif. >> thank you. >> tell us about madame c.j. walker. if there is someone out there that doesn't know who this woman was, enlighten them. >> she was one of the first african-american self-made million a. what we love most about her is the work show did around phil an 31y. and we mostly associate her with the hair care industry, and i think that was the beginning of the whole mogul thing and making the money to invest into the community. >> start with the stories. some don't know the details. >> yes. >> and how she became a millionaire? >> in the book, it's called on her own ground. her great, great granddaughter will have the book, too. >> great. >> and of the stories that

even children harass women. and there's no way that they are sexually frustrated. >> this street on weekend hoords of young men hang out here and they see women and girls as fair game. women face verbal abuse even in broad daylight. >> one of our volunteers got harassed here and she managed with the help of her brother to get the harasser and take him to the police station where she could file the report and the report succeeded. that's one of the very few success stories that we have here. >> acmed owns this key of course. he is one of the few men that work with harass map. this isn't a new problem. social cohesion fell apart under mubarak's regime. when a woman is assaulted people look the other way. the harass map street teams want to change that with the cooperation of residents and vendors acacmed. they want to see zero tolerance of actacks against women. ack med's key of course is a safe zone for women. it's marked with a harass map sticker including an emergency hot line number. he says that young women o

women into flying. they tried when i was an instructor to divide students. i was the one who put the kibosh on that. like why are you doing that? just the policy or discussion of that creates resentment in the men. women have to be together at this time. well, when they go to their units, they may not be together. it is not smart all around. to the one on one comment makes no sense. you are evaluated based on your group and peers, not your gender. that evaluation language that somehow a woman would we looked at by herself for promotion, unless there was to in the unit. if that is really how they are forming had to do this, that is the wrong direction. we need to make sure we are continuing to recruit the most capable force. we need to get out into high schools to get the best men and women for jobs. except those right standards. if you end up being the only woman in your unit, that is fine. it is a leadership issue. whether it comes down to bathrooms and showers, we have all worked this out. just make s

i thought women -- i thought you would be kind of be a hero to women, most women. >> mostly you get the means you get the resentment, too. >> i got to a place where i couldn't go forward in the old way. i was so, so, so exhausted. it was tough. it was tough. i was traveling all the time, you know, and i began to realize that if i went into a hotel room, they often leave the radio on, and i would always leap across the room and turn it off, because it was so depressing to me to hear that sound. because the radio was the only sound in the apartment of my mother. and that had taken me all that time to connect it. i didn't understand the degree to which my response was being magnatized by things that had happened to me before, so that was a huge leap forward, and i think that realization came out of being depressed. there was a period of time in which the world was kind of black and white instead of in color, and out of that kind of hitting bottom, there were at least a couple of years there when i began to really look internally. revolution from within as a book is part of that, sort of th

o women. it is as simple as that. and we try make it clear that we consider anybody who has been subjected to such violence to be a victim. we don't pick and choose whether it is native americans or this group or that group. it's -- a victim is a victim is a victim. and if they've suffered, we should be doing the steps necessary to help. now, i am not going to respond to all -- there will be another time for this -- all that was said by the ranking member. but i do want to correct the notion that i have abandoned my efforts for visas to help law enforcement men and women. every law enforcement agency that i have talked with said that they would be much helped in stopping violence against immigrant women if they had this increase in so-called u-visas. i remain committed to these provisions. we will have immigration reform this year i'm sure, and this should be part of it. and i'm hoping that those who've raised questions about u-visas on the violence against women act would join me to put them

it's not clear that men can actually bond with women the way they bond with other women >> reporter: so women can disrupt romance in combat zones? >> almost by definition. reporter: who are these fatigue hags jeopardizing all that military cohesion? meet marine corps captain zoe biddle a plaintiff in the lawsuit to lift the ban on women in combat >> i think it's about time that women are allowed to serve in all roles >> reporter: why do you want to be the one to break up the band of brothers? don't be the yoko >> unit cohesion is based around common mission and being held to standards. >> reporter: we said to an expert in the workplace discrimination, do you want to know what he said in >> sure reporter: pick a number from one to four >> two. reporter: but it turns out kingsley had a lot more to say. >> you have one or two women added to the group and now everybody is vying for their attention >> reporter: women are distracting some >> they are distracting. reporter: what if the woman is not heterosexual? >> i don't think that it matters reporter: they're still going to try to hit th

women are obviously inspired by different reasons, women want to make a difference. not that everybody else doesn't they do as well. but there's a benefit in being able to reach across the aisle to democratic women and we've already done that and you're gonna see in the future here some bills roll out that'll have a lot of female support and is right for the sake of right. >> and she wants to inspire women far beyond the halls of capitol hill. >> every opportunity i have to stand in front of group of people and say to girls in the state of indiana, you can do this and you can be president. there is no celing, as far as your dreams will take you, you can go. i think there's an advantage, huge advantage, of elected official being a woman. and i think what that gender edge does, it allows me to look in a camera, it allows me to look in the eyes of women, and understand what women's health issues are like. it allows me to understand what it means to run a household. i pay my bills too. my husband is a public school teacher and ever since we've been married, i keep the ch

women and both trafficking within our shelter, as well as for outside clients. most of our [speaker not understood] we see women on the streets and living in cars and they need to be brought into shelters and greeted with appropriate services. and recently i watched a survivor and her children playing a game of tag in the backyard and i reflected on the irony of what brought her to the shelter, which was a very real and lethal game of tag she was escaping from her batterer. so we urge you to consider the other needs of survives. survivors. thank you. >> thank you, [tph-efrplts/] speaker. >> my name is stacy lambright, a staff attorney and represent [speaker not understood] we have identified gaps in legal services to african-american survivors in san francisco. bay legal is currently hosting a legal fellow named kimmy -- she is an equal justice work fellow and she has been leading a collaboration of domestic violence service provideersrs [speaker not understood] right now over two-thirds of

my lifetime to politicize women's bodies and women's health.now, the women's rights movement has struggled against for many, many generations before ours. what's important is that we remember that our health and our lives are not political tools and that american women reclaim not only their rights but their voices and actually get engaged and speak out and make sure that they are actually participating in claiming -- you know, we may not all agree on what the end game is for our lives as we live them. but we must agree on every single american's right to live their life as they see fit and to experience physical autonomy. and one of the ways that we can do that is by ensuring that women have the right to access abortion and other reproductive health care services and also recognizing that women deserve and have the right to speak out about being protected in their homes and their workplaces and et cetera with the violence against women act. >> martha plimpton, thank you for your time tonight. nancy northup and terry o'neill. always great to ha

their organizations are grouped in a kind of federation called women's liberation. >> these women are. they are deadly serious. what they are demanding is a greater share in the political power of this nation. >> females are supposed to stay home and have kids and keep the house clean. >> i like being treated as a lady. i like having a man hold my coat, open the door for me, all the little things that i think are important to a woman. >> sure, the women's libers are sincere, the homosexuals are sincere, about you they want to change the supreme law of our land. >> what we are talking about is a revolution and not a reform. >> gloria steinem is the most visible symbol of the woman's movement. >> you understand it's not a role exchange. we're not trying to do to men what men have done to us. we're trying to humanize both roles. >> every generation has its names. >> more than a third of this march are women under 25 years old. >> people who empower other people. >> susan b. anthony said our job is not to make young women grateful, it's to make them ungrateful. so they keep going. we're n

but by some measures turkey ranks among the worst places in the world for women: women are less educated than men, far fewer have jobs outside the home. and in the home, half of all turkish women report having suffered some form of domestic violence. inci kerestecioglu is a sociologist at istanbul university. >> violence against women in turkey has increased in response to the demands women are making to become freer and men feel powerless and resort to violence. >> reporter: women have taken to the streets in recent years-- this demonstration was last march. a big problem, many say is the indifference of police and government officials even as turkey's government reports the number of women murdered in a year in this country went up 1,400% between 2002 and 2009. >> they don't want to deal with this problem, they don't see it as serious, this is a women's issue, that's why they don't see it. >> reporter: gulsun kanat-dinc works for a group called mor cati, one of few refuges for women like this 39-year-old mother of three who endured almost two decades of abuse. >> ( translated ): my hea

, women of color, were working.re these middle-class white women saying, hey, we want careers and jobs, and women of color had been working for a longtime critic as ruth simmons, the president of brown university said, my dream was to work in an office because everyone i knew, every woman i knew was working as a maid. that was the tension. we also talked about how some of that tension was resolved as leaders like gloria steinem and others began to understand the interest of black feminists or sometimes different than the interests of white feminists. they had different issues. we did address that. >> and your own story? >> i came into the business kind of in the wake of the movement. i lived through the women's movement in high school and college, and then i realized that in 1975, media companies were willing to consider women because they kind of had to. they had no choice. they had been sued. there were suits at time and newsweek. they were open to women coming in. i think as i went along, i would often be the fir

violence against women and preventing against women means preventing violence against all women, especially those from the lgbt community, especially those from the immigrant community. i'm here to support the bipartisan senate bill that was passed. and oppose the house amendment. i was a prosecutor in alameda county for seven years. i worked day in, day out with women who came in as violence victims. people who had been battered. it's only because of the vawa, violence against women funding that we have in our office that allowed our victim advocates to provide them with the emotional and physical service these needed that we could even begin to put them on the track of healing. only because of this funding. so right now it is incumbent upon us to make sure that this funding is available as we move forward to all women. mr. swalwell: all women. violence against all women must be protected and we must have funding that shows that we will go aggressively after their abusers and support our law enforcement and their efforts to do that. today's bipartisan bill gives us an opportunity to show t

she was beloved by the women. she was the type of leader that possessed this mixture of toughness and great humanity. c-span: where was hospital number one? >> guest: number one was originally on the seacoast of bataan, but it was moved inland when the japanese started bombing, and it was in a mountain region -- a mountainous region. it was an ordnance -- you can see that's an old ordnance shed, where they've put hospital beds up underneath. the japanese actually bombed this hospital right around easter in 1942, dropped bombs right on it, killed many patients, and two nurses were wounded with shrapnel. c-span: the tunnel. >> guest: yes. c-span: what's -- what was it called? >> guest: it was called malinta tunnel, and it was built in the 1930s to store things. and once the japanese started bombing, the forces moved underground. there were all sorts of laterals. it really was a catacomb. and what you're looking at here is a pre-war shot of the hospital lateral. it was deep underground. and i was -- again, i was ther

i thought women -- i thought you would be kind of be a hero to women, most women. >> mostly you get the means you get the resentment, too. >> i got to a place where i couldn't go forward in the old way. i was so, so, so exhausted. it was tough. it was tough. i was traveling all the time, you know, and i began to realize that if i went into a hotel room, they often leave the radio on, and i would always leap across the room and turn it off, because it was so depressing to me to hear that sound. because the radio was the only sound in the apartment of my mother. and that had taken me all that time to connect it. i didn't understand the degree to which my response was being magnatized by things that had happened to me before, so that was a huge leap forward, and i think that realization came out of being depressed. there was a period of time in which the world was kind of black and white instead of in color, and out of that kind of hitting bottom, there were at least a couple of years there when i began to really look internally. revolution from within as a book is part of that, sort of th

i've seen women od. >> 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 that are committed by the women here because in order to support their drug habits, you end up committing burglaries, petty theft, 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

women don't like stories like that. do, i wait for prince charming, he's gonna save me, that's my whole life here? they don't go for that anymore. ("i get around" playing) (narrator) in the late 1980's and 90's, women writers and directors found more opportunities to say their side of the story. (sperm) come on right down here, kids, here we go! yee ha! (sperm) come on, dig in, kids! (narrator) using the truth of their own experience stretching the boundaries of the form, (sperm) oh, oh, oohhhh, baby! (narrator) women revitalized the genre, as they take a humorous look at cherished romantic myths. (narrator) in a tradition where nothing is sacred, one director even began a film where most comedies end: motherhood. i had sort of avoided the whole women thing for a long time, i wanted to work in movies, and not limit myself, i wanted to be doing what the boys were doing. and i sort of was trying to figure out how you stay in the game and all of that and it was only after, you know, having my baby that i like said, "what d

i understand who these women are. so who better to sit down and talk with them than someone who has been there. that's what i've done. >> it's a little after 1:00 p.m. when the task force sets up in a hotel near o'hare airport. this strip of hotels and motels is a well known hot spot for the business of sex for sale in cook county. male undercovers in one room begin making contact with women advertising sex for sale on backpage.com. >> hi, cherry. this is tim. i'm looking at your ad on backpage and hoping you're available some time today. would you be willing to come to me? >> meanwhile in a room across the hall, female undercovers post fake ads for sex and lure johns into the hotel. >> you going to come visit me? what time are you looking at? okay. i charge $90 for a full service for one hour. is that okay with you? he's calling for a date for tonight. wants to know if i do greek which is a common term for anal sex. okay, i can't wait to see you. >> female undercovers make contact with an eager john. >> right now. he

that's over 1 billion women.ivists and celebrities have contributed to the campaign by sharing their own stories in a series of videos, like this message from anoushka shankar, the daughter of the world- renowned sitar player ravi shankar. >> i am anoushka shankar from india, living in london but when i was in high school in the u.s., and helped run a feminism club along with friends. the adults used to laugh and find it quite cute. a few years later in my early 20s, i look back and 19 itself thinking the -- look back at my team itself thinking i knehad bn quite me. i think it was the girl in my twenties that was naive. there's nothing to buy what is going on in the world. what is now leave is wanting to change it. as a child, i suffered sexual and emotional abuse for several years at the hands of a man my parents trusted implicitly. growing up, like most women i know, i suffered various forms of groping, touching, verbal abuse and other things i did not know how to deal with, did not know i could change. as a wo

aggressive women fighting for power then the sabotaging agency i like women i have worked with women my whole life i went to a school as a graduate school at sarah lawrence in which i was the only male amongst hundreds of women so i'm very used to being in large groups of women i'm used to working with women i get along with them i don't know where i got this massage and its reputation because i love to shoot women out of the dress. the muppet i love to make them look beautiful oh i have to follow them around with cameras because the are appealing to my eye i mean this movie was full of women they had we had the two competing executives we had the assistant that's in love with her boss and there we have this beautiful russian ballerina so what more could i ask for thank you very much. more news today violence is once again flared up or. these are the images seeing from the streets of canada. operations are. mission free accreditation free. for charges free to make humans free. free. free. download free blog plug in video for your media projects free media. here the reindeer is intere