of the association of bank women and the formation of the women's bond club. according to rumor, a woman even sought membership on the new york stock exchange in 1927, 40 years before it actually became reality. women made inroads particularly in commercial banking during the inter-war years. isabel benam became the first female railroad analyst in 1934 and embarked on a successful career that spanned six decades. mary robling became the first woman president of trenton trust in 1937. when world war ii came, again a familiar story. women answered the country's call to duty and even filled empty posts on wall street. but they were booted out when peace time prevailed and the men came home. but in the coming decade, is both a booming economy and broadening acceptance of women's roles helped power further progress. from the 1950s through the 1970s, both wall street and american women staked their positions amid a changing landscape. a few intrepid leaders broke new ground at the crossroads. of particular note, mary robling became the first woman governor of the a

will we elect more women? women are more likely to elect more women.t is not just who is in the elected position. it is too as the chief of staff and the policy director. who is the campaign manager and the press secretary? people have an awareness of the somed optic in media and of the challenges. you have to have people who of the sensitivity and awareness of those things. it is not just planting a seed to encourage more women to run for office. it is saying that we need your perspective at every part of this process. first-time candidates, the operatives and the pundits quickalysts, they will be to say that a woman is not viable. who better to trust with your vision and help you actualize this endeavor than other women? we need to the old a bench that .s not about winning office we need to build a bench of operatives who know how to run campaigns and right sound strategy. we need to do. >> what you have articulated -- articulated and has shown up in your report is that the coming political in the stream and pipeline and going on to elected office. i

recognizing women's security needs, sometimes unique only to women. bringing the world particularly defense and intelligence analysts onboard with diplomats and experts and academics about what more we can do to support the security of women and to engage them in peace building. now, as you saw at the -- in the video, there was that wonderful quote by the brigadier general that men and women are like two wings on the same bird. i think i'm going to shamelessly appropriate that. it is true. it's a vivid image in our minds. you cannot look forward if you're talking economically, politically, culturally, securitiwise, without both wings flapping. and what we have the opportunity to do through the council, through the georgetown institute, is to partner with governments around the world, particularly those that have been involved in the international coalition or in support of a lot of the development and human rights work that has gone on in afghanistan. in order to keep that hope and promise alive to women and girls in afghanistan that they will not go

women hired an ad agency to conduct google searches on phrases such as "women should" and "women can't." the search engine's autocomplete function generated phrases such as "women should be slaves," "should not work", "cannot drive" and need to be controlled. the ads display the most popular responses over the mouths of women, showing in graphic form how women are silenced by gender bias. the united nations organization's officials believe this is proof it needs to continue making the case. for gender empowerment and equality. so marjorie clifton what about this campaign, do you think it's a good idea? >> i think it's very telling what bing and google and other great search engines allow removing the human hand to sort of see in a very analytical way what humans and what people are actually doing online without having intervention. what we're seeing is the unfortunate truth but also the global truth that we're looking at now. i think what -- again these search engines do open up the world to us. especially in the united states we think this wildly empowered group of women where we rank

but i know every one of these women and women this afghanistan today will remain determined and we have an obligation to remain determined and stand by them. we intend to make clear that securing the rights of afghan women and girls is not just a challenge for this moment, it's a generation al challenge. we've made a significant down payment, but finishing the job will take courage and not just the courage of women in afghanistan. as a proud father of two daughters, i have many times been reinforced in the fact that this job will require the courage of men, too. in afghanistan, it will take the courage of every man who defends his daughter's right to an equal education. it will take the courage of every brother who challenges the law that keeps his sister from owning property or opening a business. and every husband who not only promises that the cycle of domestic violence can stop with him, but who actually prove it is. we have spent a great blood and treasure in afghanistan. and that makes even greater our obligation to get this right. yes there are challenges ahead. for sure the tran

will we elect more women? women are more likely to elect more women.t is not just who is in the elected position. it is too as the chief of staff and who is the policy director, who is the campaign manager and the press secretary? surrounding you with people who have an awareness of the biased optic in media and some of the challenges. you have to have people who have the sensitivity and awareness of those things. it is not just to plant a seed to encourage more women to run for office. it is saying that we need your perspective at every part of this process. for many first-time candidates, the operatives and the pundits and analysts, they will be quick to say that a woman is not viable. who better to entrust with your vision and help you actualize this endeavor than other women? we need to the old a bench that bench thatilding a is not about winning office. we need to build a bench of operatives who know how to run campaigns and right sound strategy. that is what we need to do. >> what you have articulated -- articulated and has shown up in your repor

such a great story and as gun magazines aimed at women began to be published and ads aimed at women began to be published. books also came out here's one five. packs in quickly who is the cover girl actually on this magazine and this book was called armed and female it's sold zillions of copies and was a media sensation because paxton quickly suggested that if women wanted to avoid rape they really needed to buy guns and learn how to use them because. the police weren't going to be there to protect them husbands weren't going to protect them in fact husbands might be the ones trying to rape them and they needed to protect themselves. reinforcing ideas in women's magazines spreading the idea that a strong woman is an armed woman and the results speak for themselves since nine hundred ninety gun sales amongst women have risen by twenty percent now pistols revolvers and rifles form an integral part of the american shopping basket. it is really important for the gun industry that every member of the family i want to go. and that guns are seen as something that promotes family values you know

by the way, conservative women, moderate women, libertarian women, left out. >> her critiques of late 20s century feminism in american culture have led critics to label her as anti-feminist. sunday december 1st on "in depth" fort christina hovey sooers and looking ahead join mark levin. book tv in depth on c-span 2. >> feminist gloria steinem spoke today at the national press club about the future of the women's rights movement. this is an hour. >> our guest made it as a high pourer woman when she discovered it was far too narrow to accommodate her. gloria is the face of the feminist movement dubbed "the leading icon of american feminism" in "time" magazine and solidified her legacy by co-founding ""m"ms." magazine. miss steinem celebrated the hag's 40th anniversary right here at the national press club last year. she said then it was the right place to do it since she was also the first woman to appear as a national press club luncheon speaker. after women were admitted in 1971. [ applause ] she received a men a tie as a thank you. she's in town this week to receive the presidential

women, she's pushing african-american women, you know, the people that taught her about women were russian jewish immigrants, rose snyderman and maude schwartz, so she has a very different attitude about that by the time the commission has really taken off. >> i thought it was so interesting to learn from you about hansa mata and the work at the human rights commission at the u.n. and in particular i was wondering if we could look at eleanor's two books that had a lot to do with women and how her views may have changed between writing them. so in 1933, i know that she wrote "it's up to the women." and then in 1962 just before she died she was finishing "tomorrow is now." and i'd love to know how her views of women's involvement in the political sphere and in rights in general changed over time. >> well, they're fairly radical. i mean, eleanor when she's -- she grows up in a very traditional home and she's radicalized by this woman whose name is mademoiselle avast, who was her great teacher, who eleanor later describes as a closet bolshevik. that's her term. and told her that the only way t

so these are really dangerous procedures for women. she's in labor, and they're ripping the child out of her womb and this is dangerous, and it's more dangerous than carrying to term. and that's why most people are agreeing and people in albuquerque are saying, we have it stop these barbaric practices, women deserve better, and children deserve better. >> the bill makes exceptions for life exceptions, but the standard for roe v. wade is for the mother. and what do you find different about albuquerque? >> i think it's a basic level, it's great to ensure that women's lives are not going to be put at risk by denying them to medical care, is i guess that one narrow exception that's great. but really, when it comes to these kinds of procedures, there are other sorts of desperate circumstances under which women may need this late-term abortion care. often women discover fatal, really serious fetal abnormalities after the point of 20 weeks of pregnancy, and often they have to make a heartbreaking choice to terminate a wanted pregnancy, and th

afghan women's council. and to work with our own congressmen and women to make sure afghanistan stays in the forefront of the people do pay attention to i want. 1 i was pleased with secretary kerry's remarks that we were close to the bilateral support. the number one thing on the minds of the women is how can they continue to work if they don't have security. how can they continue to protect the girls that go to their schools. how can they continue to keep open the shelters for victims of domestic violence. how can they continue to encourage other women to take leadership positions in either the government or the private sector. so this is a very real worry. and i think we have to work with our own government, both the obama administration and secretary kerry and other leaders in the administration as well as members of congress to keep this issue on the forefront. then to coordinate as we withdraw from our coalition partners as well. i think, too, as malan has pioneered in this work of peace and security, w

as long as republican women tolerate any kind of attack on democratic women or democratic women tolerate attacks on republican women and, you know, think about the lightning rod that sarah palin and hillary clinton have been. think about, if we tolerate any of those attacks, we will never get past this. we cannot get past this. so, and that is why i am here today.[applause] i want to model that behavior for people and say, we need to reach out across the aisle on these issues. whether it is criticisms based on gender or these impediments that we all share as women getting into the process. in particular, these kind of attacks, we need, as women, to say that that is unacceptable and is always unacceptable. if we do that and stand together, it will go away and it will become not politically correct. as long as we still laugh at one or the other, we are lost. we are all lost and we are hurting ourselves we do that. if you can take away one message from me today, that would be my message. you can never attack another woman who is in politics. >> this is what we are talking about, people. whe

afghan women's council, and to work with our own congressmen and women to make sure afghanistan stays in the forefront, that people do pay attention to it. it's going to be -- once our troops leave, the eyes of the united states will move away. we can't let that happen. it just is so, so important. what's important are those lives in afghanistan, the people that have changed. we need to make sure they don't think we've shifted our attention as well as our troops. [ applause ] >> i agree completely with laura's comments. i also want to bring into the conversation our international partners. we have, as i said, a number of diplomats. we also have minister of norway, minister brenda, welcome. norway has been a great partner on behalf of the development and human rights of the people of afghanistan with particular attention on afghan women. so in addition to what we ask all of us to continue doing to support the projects and the people who are on the front lines literally of continuing the progress that has been made in afghanistan, we want to closely coordinate with our friends around th

and it explains both the dearth of women in leadership skills and the death of women -- dearth of women in computer science. stereotypes, as you said, if you become aware of a stereotype, you will act in its accordance. so this is why if you remind boys and girls that they're boys or girls right before a math test they have to check off m or f, the boys do the same, and the girls do worse. >> really? >> just that intervention. if you tell the same girls right before the same test girls do really good on this test, they do better. our stereotypes of boys are that they're better at math and science. we think more boys are computer scientists. you know, i put my son -- 7 years old last summer -- in camp at stanford. at 7 years old you have children, the parents are making the decisions. 35 kids in that class, 5 girlsful of those five girls, i put two of them in, it was my niece and her friend. [laughter] you know, it is silicon valley. like, let's wake up. parents, our generation, my age, are putting their boys in computer science camp at 7 and not their girls. that's stereotype threat bec

the institute for women's policy research tells us that paying women of all races equally to white men would put $200 billion more into the economy every year and would be way more effective than propping up banks and wall street because this money would get spent, not put into swiss bank accounts. it would create jobs and help the poorest kids who are those who depend on a mother's income. but do we hear economic stimulus and equal pay in the same sentence? no. i don't think so. and after we do that, we also need to value caregiving work, caregiving work, which is a third of the productive work in this nation at replacement value and make that sum tax deductible if we pay taxes and tax refundable if we don't. we could do that. two, a woman's ability to decide whether and when to have a child is not a social issue. it is a human right. it is the biggest indicator of whether she is educated or not, can work outside the home or not, is healthy or not and how long she lives. this country has the highest rate of unplanned pregnancies, teenage pregnancies and medically complicated births in

women have babies and so on. he doesn't quite say that part as he should. then in order to take over other people's land, invented the idea that those people were inferior. it's a brilliant, brilliant book. and, you know, let's keep this going. at your table, keep doing it. keep handing around ideas. thank you. >> thank you for coming today. thank you also. thank you to our national press club staff including our journalism institute and broadcast center for helping organize today's event. finally, here's a reminder. you can find more information about the national press club online www.press.org. thank you, we are adjourned. >>> the senate homeland security committee will examine the impact of digital currencies that allow people to exchange goods and services without using real money. witnesses include patrick merck, bit coin foundation general council. here on c-span 3. we'll take another look at digital currencies this wednesday on "washington journal" with a wired magazine article by contributing editor davi

southern women and a lot of people think of them as a rough-and-tumble place. do they remember gentlewomen? >> of course they had to adapt because it was hard. but i think that they brought the gentility and they wanted to make sure that they had eight quality of life. and they had refined backgrounds that they adapted to the harshness in a very resilient way as well as a very positive way, peter. that is what i thought really set them apart in so many ways that they could do that and one thing you did not touch upon is your own district in texas. >> when i graduated from law school, the big law firms did not hire women. so i looked for a job, and it was very much ending when a door closes a window opens and i stopped at a television station and i walked down and said that i would like to apply for a job, and that ended up getting a job as a television news reporter and because i was a lawyer, he gave me a start and there was an obstacle course that i went through and i was elected to the legislature and then state treasurer and in the united states senate. >>

business women and even grandmothers. all are members of diva wow. a club for those craving a life outdoors. that's their goal to have fun with other like minded women at the weekend and they don't come unprepared clothes hats jewelry and leopard prints everywhere you look. here's my get. a rifle today this is key to enjoying the weekend and by old world one i got a good. captain fancy protective covers twenty two gauge shotgun and in their designer handbags other pistols. and denise is that enough to make a cd yes. denise is a fifty three year old housewife she is a regular amongst the davis today she has volunteered to welcome the new participants. well our organization is the largest women's only out there are going to zation the world and so what we do is we think if we can introduce women to the outdoors they will bring their children so that's why we come in here in the n.f.l. they've really had a great time we're shooting and they can take it home and then introduce their children to in pick up the sport because we

these are young women.ng women who were fertile, who can reproduce for hitler and also young women who are single who are working in these offices and working on the nursing profession as teachers. i notice most of these women were on between 1920 and 1924 thereabout. and so now i not only have women on the eastern territory, but looks like a generational phenomenon that was emerging. so i start to refer to them is the first world war i baby boomers. this fits into the general history of nazi germany that the leadership itself was young. those that committed these crimes were young within the german population. you had people like hitler and how mart in their 40s with enormous amounts of power and similarly women of marriage age in their 20s also wielded considerable power and the implications of that coming young people wielding the power, life-and-death ability to make life-and-death decisions over non-germans. in the summer of 2005 is that the u.s. holocaust memorial museum, still on this collect enough

and i see a lot of women there or i have met a lot of women there who are wearing the blackout fits and following their husbands and not allowed to go out alone unescourted and they tell me they are -- that islam is liberating to them. and that does bother me. quickly because we have 20 seconds. but what is your response? >> i write so much i think we have to be careful that we do not generalize and acknowledge the fact of course there's problems. there's problems here. >> and we talk about that a lot >> and like we live in the confrontation with patriotry is something that women's movements all over the world are trying to conquer. >> that is it for this edition to the contrary. follow me on twitter and visit our website web web where the pbs.org/to the contrary. and whether you think things are to the contrary, please join us next time. - bob scully's world show is brought to you by redline communications. bringing rugged wireless networks where nobody else will go. ♪ - hi, this is bob scully, and welcome to another edition of the world show, a brand-new series this week - entrepreneu

women controlled their own fertility and they -- the native women referred to european women as those who die in childbirth. they were appalled at these women who came from the worst stage of patriarchy and couldn't decide when to have children. we're walking around on a history that we don't know. and there are many women trying to bring it back. and there's a friend whose work you should look up as well. who has written a book called everything we want once was here. and that's not only true of native cultures in this country, but also of cultures in southern afterry car, who will take you out into the desert and dig a hole and show you what they use for contraception, for headaches, migraines. it's true of the original cultures of 95% of human history. don't let anyone tell you that it's human nature that we live this way. no, it once was different, and it still could be. native women are very funny about it, you have to have a sense of humor, given what they've gone through. what did columbus call -- primitive, equal women. >> we are almost out of time, we have one more question.

white women are not having enough children, they say to me. you know, and it's why the issues all go together. so, you know, anti-immigration, anti-birth control, anti-abortion and so on. so we have to take back our state legislatures. >> citing the example of working moms versus stay-at-home moms, a questioner asked, what are your thoughts on the way women treat each other? >> well, if we were ever asked a question that included men, we might give a better answer. i mean, do we ever ask men, can you have it all? you know, we need work patterns that allow everybody to work and also have a life and have kids if they want to. men too. the whole idea of stay-at-home moms and moms who -- i mean, the language is bananas. women who work at home work harder than any other class of worker in the united states, longer hours, no pay. [ applause ] so let's just never again say women who don't work. it's women who work at home or who also work at and let's always ask all of those questions of men too. it's just divisive can you have it all? i mean, not ev

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

great story and as gun magazines aimed at women began to be published and ads aimed at women began to be published. books also came out here's one five. paxton quickly who is the cover girl actually on this magazine and this book was called armed and female it sold zillions of copies and was a media sensation because paxton quickly suggested that if women wanted to avoid rape they really needed to buy guns and learn how to use them because. the police weren't going to be there to protect them husbands weren't going to protect them in fact husbands might be the ones trying to rape them and they needed to protect themselves. reinforcing ideas in women's magazines spreading the idea that a strong woman is an armed woman and the results speak for themselves since nine hundred ninety gun sales amongst women have risen by twenty percent now pistols revolvers and rifles form an integral part of the american shopping basket. it is really important for the gun industry that every member of the family own a gun. and that guns are seen as something that promotes family values you know not someth

i know we look at the age different is in young women and say women our age. you know, finding the difficulty. are there differences amongst the age of women in general? guest of the young generation of women has been targeted by the alcohol industry. in the mid-1990s, we saw the invention of both sleep.cut in fees prepackaged drinks that are basically starter drinks, cocktails with training wheels on a transitional drinks that people into drinking. move them away from you because that women usually don't like the taste of. what happens is they mature into vodka drinkers. so on campuses, you've got young men and young women playing drinking games, but the young guys with and it might be a woman two thirds the body satisfying.cut or shot. very risky behavior and we all know alcohol is the number one date rape drug. we see different behavior. this generation doesn't drink and drive. but the pre-drink before they go to a bar because it's expensive. they have alcohol in their dorms. they drink ahead of the event, which means once they get to the event, they are of

it's really worth, women especially should read about the fights you had to wage on behalf of women. i loved also an addict to about your much revered senator margaret chase smith of maine gave a speech called the declaration of conscience really directed at mccarthyism but not naming senator joe mccarthy on june of 1950 and you quote a financier and political consultant named bernard burr who said if a man had made that declaration conscience he would have been the next president of the united states. and you mentioned in the book when you are talking about hillary rodham clinton who is an old friend. he said an extraordinary role model and you have known her for years. your husband served together. did they sit next to each other? >> in the order in which the states come into the union is how they sit. >> oh right. it's so serendipitous. you are old friends and obviously colleagues and you said the united states is ready for a woman president so i have to ask you, she is obviously the great hope of the democratic party and the great hope of many women, whether or not you want her t

but the real gender gap was not between men and women but between single white women who tended to vote democratic and white men and white married women who tended to vote republican. thus rests another paradox within the decade of liberation, if you will, a paradox within a paradox. while the culture appeared to accentuate liberation and group rights were extended, it was traditional women who provided the catalyst for political change from the right. progressive liberation produced an irony, the mobilization of right-wing women. if this was the age of liberation, it was equally the age of reaction. stirrings on the right mark the beginnings of the revival of the right. the mobilization of female conservative activists proved critical in this conservative resurgence. this resuscitation of the conservative movement and the republican party came to be labeled "the new right." critical to the new right was its capacity to raise money for political causes through collect mailing and its emphasis on moral issues, so-called social issues. by the way, the republicans used to be at the forefro

wherever those women may live. i rise tonight to talk about the rights that are enshrined in our bill of rights. to that particular key concern of americans, i want to talk about the importance of reforming our domestic surveillance laws. and we, senator wyden and i, as we both enter this discussion, we have one general goal in mind and that is to find the proper balance of keeping our nation safe from terrorism while still protecting our cherished constitutional rights. senator wyden and i are both members of the senate intelligence committee, and we have argued for years that the government's domestic surveillance authorities need to be narrowed, and we're going to keep leading this fight in the days and weeks and months to come. as a part of this ongoing effort, we recently introduced comprehensive bipartisan legislation that would end the n.s.a.'s collection of millions of innocent americans' private phone records, shield americans from warrantless searches of their communications and install a constitutional a

these extraordinary women have lived their lives every single day to make sure that all women can live free of violence. we all know that creating opportunities for women is not just the right thing to do. it's also a strategic necessary. societies where women are empowered to exercise their rights are more prosperous and more stable. not occasionally, but always. and nowhere is the pursuit of this vision more important and in many ways more compelling and immediate and possibly than in afghanistan. if i had to blind into a district in afghanistan and i could only ask one question to determine how secure it was, how much progress it was making, i would ask what proportion of the girls here are able to go to school. there is no question in my mind that investing in afghan women is the surest way to guarantee that afghanistan will sustain the gains of the last decade and never again become a safe haven for international terrorists. on my many trips to afghanistan as a senator and secretary of sta state, i've met with business people, diplomats, our brave troo troops as well as our brave

because there is an assault on women and stand with us. >> women are not going to be dragged back warde days when they were denied access to contraception, pre-natal screening. >> to say that all things shouldn't come from government, but then have the government want to come into my bedroom and get in my uterus, it is a big deal. >> there has been incredibly productive points from a political perspective. just last week, democrat terry mcauliffe, who really should have been a terrible candidate managed to win the governor's race in virginia, thanks in large part to the radical abortion politics of his opponent, ken cuccinelli. >> cuccinelli wants to make abortion illegal in all areas, even including rape and incest, who is ken cuccinelli to do this? >> it has not slowed the onslaught of anti-abortion measures coming from the left part of the government. in fact, the opposite has happened. there were more abortion restrictions in 2011 and 2012, more than any previous year on record, with the combined restrictions put in place over those last two years, this year, another 33 restriction

they are women. some of them in the mean age that testify that it's it's a choice it's not a happy choice but it's a choice and i don't see how the name of what we can say two to two to a national independent and free according to the law. no you shouldn't do. calling on you i thinking about checking the parents. it goes. i had a great day today. if you are also see the tomb prosecution because. and because of my issues are because you live in fear of dying. someone forces you to assist in south india both known and familiar. we then proceed to move. it's not very few real nice one the person uses been yet and it's against the law these you don't have any other way to make money. nestle not caused by economic crisis but to me. economic pressure these fees. we're not going to make a wall with the protocol that too. it's possible even if we could i know it's impossible to donate money. people sometimes find themselves one of the table for tea and the new man. hmm didn't know what we mean that if women

women's issues. this is an hour. >> it's not often that one person can define an era. our guest made it as a highpowered woman in a man's world. gloria steinem is the face of the feminist movement and was dubbed the leading icon of american feminism in "time" magazine. she solidified her feminist legacy by co founding ms. magazine. more than 40 years later, she's still a co-editor. miss steinem celebrated the magazine's 40th anniversary right here at the national press club last year, she said then it was the right place to do it, she was also the first woman to appear as a national press club luncheon speaker after women were finally admitted to the club's membership in 1971. [ applause ] she received a men a tie as a thank you. she's in town this week to receive the presidential medal of freedom from president obama. [ applause ] ms. steinem is a granddaughter as a suffragist and worked as a journalist in the 1960s after living here in washington during high school and heading to smith college, fro

>> take women out of -- i don't think you have to take women out of combat but women need to give it serious thought. >> i think it is fixable. there are new -- this is new. you would expect that this kids who come out of environment let's face it, where a lot of this is tolerated would bring that to the armed forces i think it's fixable, it must be fixed, it's not being fixed fast enough i think senators -- >> i agree. but not at the recruitment level because again that's kind of ugly. i think again, private company wouldn't do that in their recruitment. >> with all the attention focused on women we are missing the fact that 26,000 men were sexually assaulted in 201. >> i thought it was -- 26,000 people -- >> i have heard men. 19,000 in 2010. as much as i'm concerned about how women are faring we have to think about this in terms of assault in general. >> i don't know if all of those are sexual assaults. >> whatever the reported figure is the real figure is higher. i think this is absolutely something that is fixable but it has to be fixed. great example of why we -- drum roll -- be

, colored women.and i said why? like what they would say that's the way it is. don't get in the way. don't get in trouble. but dr. king and rosa parks inspired me to get in trouble. so by sitting in, we were arrested and we went to jail. 89 of us were arrested on that day. >> host: did you pay a fine? were you in jail for a while? >> guest: we were in jail for a few hours. a matter of fact, the local school officials came down and bailed us out. that was my first arrest. that was my introduction to the southern jails. i tell people, i grew up sitting down on this lunch counter stools and going to jail in places like nashville and birmingham, jackson, mississippi, and atlanta, georgia, and a few other places across the south. >> host: what was the ultimate result in nashville prior to the larger civil rights movement? >> guest: the nashville community became probably one of the first major cities in the american south to segregated lunch counters and restaurants. a year later desegregate all of its the

watching afghan women build. and as secretary clinton and laura bush and ambassadors verveer and russell powerfully remind us, when afghan women live longer and go to school in greater numbers, all afghan families and their communities will grow stronger. when afghan women run their own businesses, all afghans profit from a more diverse, dynamic, and inclusive economy. and when afghan women hold public office at the local and national levels, all afghans gain a stronger voice in their communities. that is the vision behind the united states national action plan on women, peace and security, which president obama directed to be implemented two years ago and which hillary spoke about just a few minutes ago. and that's why we are committed to bringing the perspectives of women and their full participation to bear on these opportunities and challenges in afghanistan going forward. now what has moved me, and i mean moved me, in my meetings with an impressive group of afghan women entrepreneurs is that when afghan wome

there is critical mass of women , but alsoate now women are in key leadership roles. back in 2003 when i was chairman of the homeland security committee, i was the only woman who was chair of a major committee. this is a sea change. >> by the way there are no women chairs in the house. i believe that is a case. >> we're almost out of time, but obviously so much of what is behind the distaste with congress and frankly the washington -- and frankly washington in general is because he can't seem to get anything done and can't work with each other. given the progress that women -- as some of you women of the isate have been able to do, because there are more moderates like yourself or the fact that you actually spend time together at these dinners? we know each other and we know where we can find common ground and where we can't. it's like a washington used to run. people knew about each other and cared about each other. that makes a major difference. we can really get there by walking around in a flight suit. actually. have, when i was running for prosecutor i would've c