hurt women? it depends on who you ask. >> i find garners different kinds of reaction. some people find them to be really exciting and they're not scared by them at all. and then on the other side of the spectrum people are quite concerned and find them to be kind of like goblins, scary goblins out there who are doing a lot of damage. >> goblins or crusaders for justice who is it? >> at this table i am probably wrong person to ask that question because as someone who works in the media i obviously think that the media should be the gatekeeper for a lot of the type of information. because people in the media have the opportunity to vet it make sure that it's accurate and true before putting it out there. that's why they continue to be the gatekeeper. >> problem people have with anonymity is accountability. when i think of the analogy frankly the huge contributors are doing when they are ee step shelly destroying our democracy we don't know who they are. only thing i ask if i don't know where the in

so they're trying to do all they can to keep women from exercising it. >> this is trying to protect women. saying any facility that treats women medically also have to live by same standards as anybody else the abortion clinics have not had to do that. >> saying abortion in which section immoral has nothing to do with upgrades or health or safety it's affront to women's basic human dignity. >> that many have nothing toe do but for patient safety. >> tell me how those -- the kind of guidelines that physician's office would have to follow are different from what's being put on abortion clinics in texas? >> these resolutions encapsules are dangerous 46789 clinics when this law was passed. >> didn't that similar law pass in virginia? >> it did. >> got thrown out? >> actually it's being amended i was at that state board of health meeting in richmond recently where we discussed that. but in texas wept from 41 clip particulars 17. only going to be 7 if these surgical center requirement is upheld. >> basically it has nothing to do with -- >> no no, there's a new study out from the university of c

resources need to be targeted to ensure women, women, particularly poor and adolescent women have adequate access. more resources need to go into supporting the one in seven women who are poor. only about one quarter of women living in poverty receive lesser benefits now, and they are only 50 percent of the poverty line. the famine cost is substantial. millions suffer from shortages in food and housing and many women are trapped in violent relationships. raising the minimum wage would help especially since women are two thirds of minimum-wage workers. expanded education and employment options are critical. ronald reagan once famously quipped we fought a war on poverty, and poverty one. domestic violence calls for more effective enforcement strategies. 25 percent of women have experienced such violence. the united the united states has the highest rate of spousal homicide in the united -- in the world. the common the common response is, why does she not just leave? the answer to often is there is nowhere to go. shelters for victims come nowhere close to meeting the need. some need. some tur

are ultra orthodox jewish women or religious muslims women or religious christian women, they have an issue of going out of the house. so small businesses are actually a great opportunity. if we say religion matters. and if we say it is part of the society. small businesses, mobile phones, computer really allows family, much more women to participate. in israel, that's what we discovered. and as my personal experience, you know we are all trapped in the, doesn't matter if it's the neighborhood that we grew up or the university where we study, we have our, you know, we have our friends and family and if we don't reach out and look at other numbers and try to meet other cultures which is exactly what happened to me in jasmine. i really discovered that there are so many things i don't see within our society and we are a small society. so i can imagine in countries which are much larger. small businesses usually represent the whole society because it is about employing one or employing two and it's a great, great way maybe to close or give an answer to the number one risk that the world e

women moving into politics.it's going to take a movement. they also argued that it would take a diverse and inclusive movement and so many of our panels speakers have made that clear. most importantly or equally important is they argued that the women's movement showed and will be about more than sex equality. it's about sex equality but it also has to be about other issues. they look to the labor movement at that moment in time and to the civil rights movement because those were the two huge progressive movements that were making massive changes. they engaged with those movements. they also push for women's rights. one reviewer has said that this was a group of women that were not feminist. well let me just go on record to say they were. they introduced the equal pay act in 1945. they reintroduce it every year and tele passed in 1963. they pushed president kennedy to establish the president's commission on women. that commission called for universal childcare for giation t wd mait more posblefor workers to orni

to fly america's military aircraft should women be needed.the time, they weren't, but they did think it was a great idea. december 7, 1940 one, pearl harbor was attacked by japan. men immediately enlisted and were sent off to the european and pacific fronts and at that time, by 1942, america was experiencing a severe shortage of combat pilots over north africa. thinking back to jacqueline cochran's proposition about flying these aircraft, general henley -- henry arnold took her up on the offer. the women air force service pilots were formed. >> when i got out of high school, i started taking flying lessons. this was in a piper cub, where the instructor sits in the front and the student in the back. one day, when i had had perhaps nine hours of flying, he told me to pull over on the tarmac when i landed and he started getting out of the airplane and he told me it was time for me to take it around by myself. so he closed the door and i took off and he said watch me from the ground and i will let you know whether or not to go around again. when

particularly are women, women's history. seems to attract women only.feels we -- in new york and sure we had a huge number of african-americans, but we also had a huge number of vis visitors who weren't african-american. right now on view is an exhibition called chinese american inclusion. the history of chinese in america. we have a huge number of other visitors. always important and an eye opening story. i really have to say that i'm i think that for whatever reason might happen with the it's worrisome and find that people will say about women. all that doesn't happen. with oir prolgt, we have the context of the whole museum. our take on it is that the story that doesn't get told is that women are actually part of american history. they're actually integral to american history and that's going to be what we hope we will show. and stress. but not with standing that, i think it's an open question and one that i certainly wondered about quite often. >> we have time for one, maybe two more questions, so if there's anybody else. >> i guess this is a questi

he called it women economics. i had a chance to sit down with the prime minister just a few weeks ago at the clinton global initiative in new york to talk with him about what he meant by this and what his government was trying to do about it. he spoke about the obstacles discouraging japanese women, educated women, in a highly developed country from entering the workplace and the cultural shifts that are needed to break down those barriers. expanding flexibility in the workplace, access to child care and elder care would boost productivity and allow more parents, men as well as women, to work full days without stress and heartache. in japan it's especially a difficult problem because as prime minister abe explained, japanese women are primarily responsible for both child care and elder care. there are not the kind of alternatives that exist in many other societies. there's a very low rate of immigrant labor coming into the country, so there's not a workforce that can be put to work or trained to work, and so when

your cause for women academics, for women journalists, for women activists, for feminists, your cause became so important. and i think that there are many people who don't know about the nature of the iranian women's movement. it is a very strong and historical movement of women in iran. and you were a part of that as well. >> yes. >> hinojosa: talk a little bit about that history of women's engagement. because, you know, so many people now in this country just see the veiled iranian woman, who seems submissive, who seems powerless. in fact, it's quite different. >> actually, even today... let me start with today and go back. even today, iranian women are not submissive. absolutely not. you know, for the last 30 years, it has been the women who have formed the only group who stood up to the regime because the idea of this regime was to send women back to their homes. you know, they had served their purpose, they had come out, they had protested in favor of overthrowing the monarchy, the establishment of an islamic republic. thank you very much, go home. but women were not going to go

pro women ever since. in to hijack that feminist movement with the underlying agenda of socialism and redistribution of wealth in america and the national organization for women was one of them. we have heard a lot but off we need to take a look at let he said they go straight to the source. why did he say? is in a manifesto that he sold at your local socialist bookstore. [laughter] dash but he boldly states to promote a single women for an all-powerful state government and wrote to the men claimed to exploit their women. with it is completely developed the family exist only among / capitalist edifying is its complement with the public institutions such to keep women and to children protected was exploitation and the family and said they should be raised the educated by the government. associates you stop that by the parents? you will see this with the education system. why is a progressive is what your kids to be as cool 7:00 p.m. through 6:00 p.m. and feed them and three meals and to come through the sys

but those women are the only women i can get to.hen you say that all of this is leading to white women making more children, how will it happen, given that the pro-natal lists want to have more children? they think educated white women are the real americans. they are the women for whom this will never happen. >> the messages that these educated white women are being given, which have to be incredibly confusing, first of all, they are being told that they are in a race against their biological clock number one. >> yes, the biological clock. >> we have the biological clock ticking, we are told that no longer should should you aim for a college education, because we have gone into a capitalism that will not reward you for adding on. -- getting one. the american dream of an education, a home, all these things become verboten. these are no longer within reach. i -- >> i don't deny what you are saying, but i have more of a class than a race analysis. there is a history to this. in the late 1960's, a few republican strategist look at the

all of us, men and women.t women are as likely to underrepresent, undervalue, overlook, not pay as much attention, to the comments of a woman who speaks as a man. once you become conscious of that, and this is all we had to do. once you become conscious of that, you can correct yourself quickly. but you have to know that is a bias we all have. this is a subtle bias we think is getting in the way of women succeeding in all organizations. >> articles have been written. one about harvard, as you know. did you think about this issue because people wrote articles about it? or did you come to it on your own? >> we came to it on our own. we had to confront this data which was data that i think anyone who is committed to being a meritocracy -- as i mentioned, my own my story makes me believe i am only sitting here because harvard business school was a meritocracy for me. the fact it could not be a meritocracy in the truest sense of the word for others was deeply disturbing to me and my colleagues. we started with that

women. i urge a strong, strong no vote on this rule and on the underlying bill and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york rers. the gentlelady from north carolina. ms. foxx: thank you, madam speaker. i'll reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from north carolina reserves. the gentlelady from new york is recognized. ms. slaughter: madam speaker m pleased to yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from california, ms. lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. ms. lee: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentlelady for yielding and being vigilant and protecting women women's right to privacy and alerting us as to the really dangers in this very terrible rule and terrible bill. first of all, once again, as i said yesterday, this is just wrong. this is a horrible bill. this takes away a woman's right to privacy and, again, i thought in our country we prided ourselves on the right to privacy. women have a ri

it's because i believe we deeply embody women's power, women's rights, women's humanity and it's an incrediblething to face. the more we can face the truth of what has happened to us to provide some sort of a path to larger social justice. thank you. [applause] >> good evening. i hope you have all found seats. it is a pleasure to join this launch of "feminism unfinished" alongside thinkers writers and activists do i have long admired. the short surprising history written by dorothy sue cobble -- diverse constituencies and controversy that marks u.s. feminism by tracing campaigns are married organizations and actors over the last century. they offer a robust path to contemporary activists and also renewed hope for those of us who have lived for as many backlashes as advancements. i can't begin to capture in 10 minutes all the strengths and subtleties of this book so instead i'm going to use my time to suggest how feminism unfinished makes clear the need to shift our metaphors replacing the standard conception of three oc waves with a more nuanced understanding offered by radio waves. we have be

h.r. 7, another attempt to attack women's rights. it especially impacts women of color. not on my watch. women of the house, let's do it again. let's prevent this legislation from moving forward and let's vote no. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlela yldsa. the gentlewoman from colorado reserves. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. pitts: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i might -- may consume. first of all, abortion is not health care. it's a brutal procedure that ends the lives of unborn children through suction dismemberment decapitation or chemical poison. it's the most violent form of death known to mankind. as the former chair of feminist for life said, abortion breaks a mother's heart. she says they're always two victims in an abortion. one's the baby one's the mother. one's dead, one's wounded. madam speaker, this human rights abuse should not be paid for or encouraged by government taxpayer money. the women in silent no more awareness campaign, the women in operation outcry point out that abortion not only takes the lives

research of well hold women back. for the autobiographical accounts although i am happy to answer questions that will just say a few words to be a whole woman lost today in a faculty member in the not so good old days. possible i never had a course taught by or about women. and gender was notable for its absence. nevada other law schools including harvard except for those particular days and the subject was for embarrassing facts are hypothetical problems involving knitting or cooking. but it was just how life was then sex discrimination and the curriculum of my interlock in stamford 1979 and for many years only one of two women on the faculty of 36 men. initially i indicated that gender and allow was a subject i like to teach and the dean was horrified. it would type me as a woman and probably would not come out as the shark but of course, imus the point that was academic credibility to establish that i needed a real subject. we compromised the over seven years until the law school that a new dean and i got tenure. a

that is 800 women a day. including 43,000 women dying annually from unsafe abortions. 5.6 million babies die at birth or are stillborn. 1.5 million men and women die annually from aids. 35% of women worldwide have been the victims of intimate partner violence. this carnage is an affront to decency and civilization. no surprise, there are those today, as there were 100 years ago, who oppose our efforts to prevent this carnage and save these lives. 100 years ago, anthony comstock, whose laws criminalized contraception, said, sexual -- and was my grandmother's tormentor said, sexual pleasure within marriage is bestial and base. the judge who sentenced my grandmother to jail for opening a birth control clinic, said, a woman has no right to copulate without fear of pregnancy. some men are continuing this dubious tradition. in the last week, listen to this litany. the male president of turkey said women would never be equal to men and they should stay at home and have three, preferably five, children. the male mini

fifty years later, in 1972, the service was opened up to married women and women with children. for male ambassadors and officers, that restriction never existed. in fact, how wives performed as hostesses was included in performance reviews >> donna hrinak: that changed in the '70s too but only in the '70s. the man's career was no longer dependent on whether his wife knew how to serve a tea properly. before it was. this is no exaggeration. >> bonnie: in 1968 foreign service officer alison palmer filed and won a sex discrimination suit. a few years later a class action suit helped pave the way for women's advancement in the foreign service. >> kirsten schulz: the department has changed when i joined my entrance class i think be 11 to 14% of the. >> women in international security found a pronounced and persistent gender gap in the senior foreign serviceambassador little yana a crawled oh serves in a highly visible post as ambassador to brazil. >> liliana: it's only as i look backwards now that i realize i was opening ground. only looking at the pictures on on the wall of former c

women.t commission produced a report in 1963 that revealed things like the fact that women earned 59 cents for every dollar that men earned. that women were kept out of the most lucrative professional positions. >> women couldn't open a bank account in their own name. they couldn't get credit. they certainly couldn't open their own business. >> women couldn't serve on juries in some states. >> there was one kind of disadvantage after another that was revealed altogether in this one report. >> perhaps you'd be willing to tell the people what you feel is the real need for it. >> we want to be sure that the women are used as effectively as they can to provide a better life for our people, in addition to meeting their primary responsibility, which is in the home. >> women's position as it had traditionally been was that they were husband's helpmates. >> jack, what is your definition of a husband? >> i think it's like driving the horse. and he's got to hold the reins. there are just a couple of r

are women. into progressive community in washington, d.c. that has become a mantra that the democrats and progressive community have been pushing for so when here's very hard to raise the issue of the minimum wage to increase the minimum wage. i know that my chapters in new jersey and it was activists from many parts of the country, came to new jersey in 2013 to help has a minimum wage law at the state level. we didn't get barbara buono elected governor a we did get the minimum wage law passed. in 2014 we got a minimum wage law passed in arkansas and alaska, even though those same voters voted for united states senators who don't support an increase in the minimum wage. so that's a whole i guess of the conversation. so why were n.o.w. chapters come by the way let me just pause for a moment and say the national organization for women is actually an the grassroots arm if you will, of the women's movement. we don't do research. we don't provide services, and we don't have a lobby shop in washington

first, women in combat. there are00,000 women in uniform, 15% of f u.s. forces.s.ast week the pentagon said the process of integrating women into combat j jobs will be completed next anywhere he first. two years ago, leon panetta and general martin dempsey order that no jobs should be off-limits to women, including infantry armor and special operations posts, as long as women meet the requisite standard, noting that female troops have performed well in action in afghastan iraq, and elsewhere. the process of fully integrating women got a major boost 20 years ago when women were allowed to fly combat missions, server board frontline warships, and support combat troops. currently military is reevaluating the physical standards for combat jobs. female officers have yet to complete demanding marine infantry officers' training. the army is assessing how to best open its elite ranger training to women. joining me is the pentagon's director and officer of enlisted personnel management, leading the pentagon's effort to integrate women in combat or in -- combat. she became a

women.n this epode of "asia insit" wollo men in their quest. a report on the evolving schemes of match making in south korre >>> occhon is a small town in central south korea. praying at the local temple is thought to bring good concern. every year some 5,000 men and woman come here to pray hoping to find a lifetime partner. praying is good, but the monk who runs the temple offers a more practical approach. he organizes match maiking events strictly for people wanting to get married. these events frhave so far produced 1500 couples. participants begin by registering at a reception area on the temple grounds. 44-year-old oh woo jeong heard about the event from a friend. he lives in neighboring city. up until his mid-30s he had to change jobs several times. now that he's finally found stability as a regional public official he's ready to get married. he thrfills out a personal prof form with details about his height, weight, occupation, annual income, family background and assets. then he desc

women are inside the house. women are told that their brains are weak.o if they study, for instance, many women are told this. it is dangerous for women to be educated. these are some of the uneducated truths to go around in afghanistan. so this thing has been the irony of that i suppose when you have such a rigid system people think of creative ways to get around that. one such way is if you don't have a son in the family but you have daughters coming you will simply make one into a son to the outside world. it's not so much about actually fooling anyone. it's more of a disguise come a practical way of coping with this very dysfunctional system. so then it will raise the status of the family because others will see a son. without a son it is very weak. no one to inherit you, no one to carry on the family name. both men and women if they don't have a son they are shamed in society. and then having it made death can provide an economic advantage for the family and you can send the child to work as a boy. this could be child labor, which is certainly not s

women. >> geena davis is an official partner of u.n. women. i spoke to her when she was in i spoke to her when she was in new york working on empowering women around the world. new york working on empowering women around the world. >> you have an entire institute >> you have an entire institute in your name that studies gender roles in media. in your name that studies gender roles in media. what led you to this? what led you to this? >> well, >> well, the final impetus was the final impetus was my daughter. my daughter. when she was a toddler i started when she was a toddler i started watching preschool shows and watching preschool shows and kids movies with her. kids movies with her. think because of some of the think because of some of the roles that i played that spoke roles that i played that spoke to women a little bit i had a to women a little bit i had a heightened awareness of how heightened awareness of how women are women are portrayed in the portrayed in the media, so i immediately noticed media, so i immediately noticed that there

women are kept down. women of color, white women and men of color as well. as replicating what we see in other venues. we have actually been working with our friends and the teachers union to try -- we have really taken -- we are concerned about a different set of things but in what you are talking about we see attacks on publicly funded unions and the attack on teachers unions and unionized teachers as the pacific problem. that was one of the reasons for trampling on union rights was that these teachers were not doing their job and they were out of control. the best thing i ever saw was an ample graphic that said you remember when it was the teachers of wisconsin who drove the economy off a cliff and got a bailout. e me neither. so that's what we have been working on with that. you are right to real problem. you had your hand up. did you have a question? >> is that going to change and stories about the economy. [inaudible] >> we know it's northern europe and it will continue to fall. >> i think it's a absolutely an economic thing. we have talked about the f

i want to say also the history of women's suffrage doesn't mention jewish women or black women, who wereffrage campaign in new york city. okay? what are you thinking about how to represent what you said, all american women? what's your vision of how you're going to do that? >> briefly. because we have more questions. thank you. >> for anybody to say i'm going back to the history of the world part 1. first of all, we are not contemplating the interpretive plan for the museum. we have taken a step back from taking a position about the interpretive plan because one of the key things you need to develop your interpretive plan is to know how much space you're going to have to do this. and until we at least identify and have some sense of location and space, then we'll deal with that.v>2 and i am not a historian. so those who are working on the?c6q program and on specific projects could tell you more. and i'd be happy to get you in touch with them.r0h >> i'm rochelle rothschild. i'm producer of a film on second wave feminism called "left on pearl," which will be coming out next year. and also

women. i spoke to her when she was in new york working on empowering women around the world. >> you have an entire institute in your name that studies gender roles in media. what led you to this? >> well, the final impetus was my daughter. when she was a toddler i started watching preschool shows and kids movies with her. think because of some of the roles that i played that spoke to women a little bit i had a heightened awareness of how women are portrayed in the media, so i immediately noticed that there seemed to be far fewer female characters than male characters that was made for kids. i couldn't believe it in the 21st therapy i thought we should be showing kids boys and girls sharing the sandbox equally. i didn't intend to create an institute around t but i found that nobody else seems to be noticing, none of my friends seemed to be noticing how few female characters until i pointed it out. in the industry, if i had meetings with the studio executives or something like that, i would as

it's women designing for women. there aren't many of us.i'm opposite, the masculine and feminine in everything. i have a fragrance for stellar and it's rose and amber. it's total opposites the feminine and masculine. one side of my lingerie is delegate and beautiful and the other is sporty. and my clothes very much. i did men's tailoring at st. martins. >> charlie: you had influence with this guy. >> edward sexton. tommy was a famous british tailor, he did all of the beatles and edward was his pattern cutter when he passed away and i worked with edward. >> charlie: he taught you how to cut fabric or what? >> he taught me another side to fashion as well. it is this paradox. i'm not girlie girlie, fashion, fashion, i'm not that type of person. i'm really intrigued by fashion but i'm interested in the psychological side. i want to know why women choose to wear what they wear and how it makes them feel. that's what excites me. >> charlie: you want to understand the people who buy your clothes. >> yeah, and i want to give them something that rea

>> there's so much repression that women become an object and the relationship between men and womens so perverted it's unhealthy that no longer are men and women able to have a healthy relationship. it is a power struggle it's women being used as part of the arsenal. so i think the more we can talk about that and not feel like we can't talk about it the better. >> good question what do we do with 13 and 14-year-olds. >> they are program add according to professor bloom not to believe nittany westerner tells them. >> i am not a fan of criminalizing young people for the sake of it. so i think that that is an interesting question that we have to figure out. getting involved in any situation of homeland security is not good for anyone let alone a 13 or 14-year-old. >> and patty hearst one of the most famous cases in america once they are programmed how long does it take to deprogram them? and that is counseling and intervention maybe if the parents were not involved to get them involved. it is a lot of things that have to be done if we are going to make a difference. >> is it kind of im

women. so almost as soon as n.o.w. has formed in 1966 women's liberation groups are emerging around the country. >> this younger generation moves in and very much broadens the perspective of the women's movement. >> all of these things build on

workers are women.but there are tensions like sexual harassment. and one of the things i've learned is how dependent the progress of women is of lurcher progressive social movements. so the civil rights movement was incredibly important to address the needs of african-american women. women are divers so it is not a surprise so the notion of liberation of freedom and equality would be diverse routes be better to do other issues so even when we pass coverage that was not giving all women the right to vote and that was not until the 1965. >> it is significant but it is certainly true that in some ways feminism can enhance the set of privileges that are most easily and quickly enjoyed by those who have other privileges in society like those who are wealthy or white. but that does not mean we don't have to support those issues. i refuse to get married for the same reasons of k barrett is a problematic institution but it is clear to my friends as well that gay people have every right to to with joy every righ

women each year. many went on to great careers. you are satisfied that an increasing number of women. when we look harder at the numbers, we realize that even though we had been greasing participation of women, not all of them worth writing. every year, we award graduating students. we also give people first year honors and second year honors. we found women were half represented as they should be by the percentage we admitted. when we had 80% part of the class, only 15% were getting honest. -- honors. that made us ask the question why. why would be that we leave we are admitting equally qualified women why would they not do as well at harvard business school? it is hard to believe women do not aspire to get honors at the same rate as men do. what we learned is that there was nothing deliberate going on in the classrooms. we found some people suspected that mail confessors may be more hostile to women. they were undervaluing the comments of women. but we learned that no, women were equally likely to u

women are inside the house. women are told that they have lesser capability.heir brains are weak, so if they studied, for instance many times women are told this they -- their uterus would just fall out. it's dangerous for women to be educated. these are some of the uneducated truths that go around in afghanistan. so then the thing is then that the irony of that i suppose is also when you have such a rigid system people think of creative ways to buck that to get around that. and one such way is that if you don't have a son in the family but you have daughters you will simply make one into a son to the outside world. so it's not so much about actually fooling anyone it's more of a disguise, it's a practical way of coping with this very dysfunctional system. so then it will raise the status of the family because others will see a son because without a son you're seen as very weak suns there's no one to -- since there's no one to inherit you, there's no one to carry on the family name, the line will end with you. so both men and women, you know, a couple who if t

women have that value.that really helped us in pushing forth the argument as a policymaker as well as including men. again we transformed it into the business side including the access to capitol and micro financing where we found that women -- i will give you one more example and i am just giving you real examples of how we try to deal with the issue. when you look at the micro instances, 23 percent are being run by women. it turns it turns out to be because of -- and they are smaller businesses than the men owned businesses and next -- less access to capitol. institutional and cultural constraints. why are women less competent to go to the banks to get a loan? one of the reasons, i am afraid i cannot pay it back because the moment someone gets sick, i'm the one who has to take care of them. i do not want to be in the position to not be able to pay my debt. what happened was some banks bundled the financing package with insurance and savings because they worry about the education saving enough for educatio

>>absolutely i call it women's syndrome >>women's syndrome? >>i call it women's syndrome and 70 percent of my practice are women and women are always putting themselves last they're taking care of everybody and they really have to carve out some space of their own so it's really important that they take care of themselves first because the most selfless thing that they can do is to take care of themselves because they can't take care of anybody else unless they're well >>you know i introduce you as a naturopathic doctor actually at the holistic naturopathic center. describe for folks on what a naturopathic doctor is. because i am not convinced most people watching know that. >>well you're probably right a naturopathic doctor does virtually everything that a family doctor would do a medical doctor but instead of employing pharmaceutical drugs and reccommending a surgery we'll try to employ natural therapies lifestyle measures that are gonna get people well >>give us a for instance >>um i'll give you an example today i had a woman that had sever

tonight, violent depictions of women being beaten raped, and run over by cars.t's not the movies it's video games. and now the women calling for change in this multi-billion dollar virtual industry are facing a very real backlash including death threats. here's my "nightline" coanchor juju chang. >> reporter: for anita sarkisian, this is the new normal. armed escorts at public events. trac move. >> i'm constantly aware of the fact that there's an enormous amount of hate directed toward me. >> reporter: hate in the form of bomb threats, rape threats, even death threats. on this morning, high alert at loyola university in chicago. it's anita's first speaking engagement since threats of a shooting massacre forced her to cancel her last appearance. all because this media critic dared to criticize something millions of us play every day. >> video games. >> reporter: video games. the threats making splashy headlines around the world. on shows like "melissa harris perry." and web casts like democracy now and huff post live. >> violent threats for pointing out sexism in

are women. the progressive community in washington, d.c., that has become a mantra. the democrats and the progressive community have been pushing for several years very hard to raise the issue of the minimum wage, to increase the minimum wage. i know that my chapters in new jersey and actually -- it was activists from many parts of the country came to new jersey in 2013 to help pass a minimum wage law at the state level. we didn't get barbara bowno elected governor but we got the minimum wage law passed. in 2014 we got the minimum wage law passed in arkansas and alaska even those same voters voted for united states senate who don't support an increase in the minimum wage. that's a whole other conversation, i guess. why were n.o.w. chapters -- by the way, let me pause for a moment and say, the national organization for women is actually the grassroots arm, if you will, of the women's movement. we don't do research. we don't provide services. and we don't have a lobby shop in washington, d.c. like

between men and women in just one word freedom as in men have it and women do not. they said the same thing when i asked her. when no one is the boss of your life, how she described it. so, there is less of a difference between men and women i asked. they look at each other again and then back acne. but then she changes her mind telling me not to bother her. she doesn't want to hear it. we would be nothing in the west. she is more hopeful and inspired by snippets of information from her american trainers and the paramilitary unit. i heard people don't care how you are or what you look like in the west. not true, that our definition of freedom may be different and it changes with each generation. the current war in afghanistan for instance is named operation enduring freedom to indicate something worth fighting a war over. but freedom as we know it today is yet another solution area luxury. when i later tell her, both is a reality. gender and freedom are ideas. and it is all how we choose to define those ideas. the afghan women that i have met sometimes with little e

women's rights should not be theater. women's rights should be preserved. if there is any question about them, it should go through regular process. don't have 72 hours of the bill brought this floor. that's what you were going to see for the next two years. the american people will be very disappointed in this congress because it is become the theater of the absurd. i don't back the balance of my time. >> the lady from pennsylvania is recognized. >> i am pleased to yield three minutes to the distinguished chairman of the judiciary committee, the dominant from virginia. >> the gentleman from virginia is recognized for three minutes. >> however start americans the fringes of opinion can be on the matter of abortion, generally there has been high partisan agreement that federal taxpayer funds should not be used to destroy innocent life. the hyde amendment has prohibited the federal funding of aborted since 1976. when it passed a house and senate that were closed overwhelmingly of democrat members. it has been renewed each appropriation cycle with few changes

economic justice for all women and getting women into the constitution the. the reason there's six issues at the core is because we have them intertwined and interrelated. if you just think about it this way, who are the candidates that we think would probably be opposed to same-sex marriage, opposed to women's rights and reproductive health care opposed to serious funding of the violence against women act. it's the same crowd over and over and over again. so they get the interrelationship. the issues are intersectional. which is to say that if you take any one particular issue that comes up, let's say reproductive rights, access to reproductive health care looks very different for an immigrant woman in what we call down county in montgomery county, maryland, where i live. the suburb of washington, d.c. access to reproductive health care looks like one thing in immigrant communities in my county versus looking like something in a wealthy predominantly white, middle class community. by having family members picked up a immigration and customs enforcement. so t

that affected thousands of women maybe. this affects millions of women.t not only affects their health it affects their personal decision on how they spend their own money for health insurance. that's what we'll be voting on now. it is hard to imagine with all that is going on and all the talk about middle class and bigger paychecks, that's what the american people want us to address, that they go down this path. they didn't even have their act together. they had to pull their bill last night and come back with an even worse bill. at the same time, as you know in december, they refused to put forth a border security bill funding for a border security bill for a year. they said they would do it in january. in january, paris occurred. the whole world was galvanized around the point of homeland security and each person's country. it seemed like the house chamber was a hermetically sealed chamber. that was oblivious to everything that was going on in the world in terms of protecting people from terrorism. once again they came forth with a bill that was ridicu

then, women on waves. >> we can legally help women seek abortion. >> we're here in solidarity with womenho have been denied their human rights. >> the new film "vessel" looks at how a dutch doctor managed to open access to safe abortion in countries were the procedure is illegal. we will speak to dr. rebecca gomperts of women on waves and filmmaker diana whitten. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. new satellite images and witness accounts have emerged of what amnesty international calls the "catastrophic destruction" from a massacre in northern nigeria. hundreds are feared dead after boko haram militants attacked baga and surrounding areas earlier this month. before and after images taken of two adjacent towns show thousands of buildings damaged or destroyed. amnesty says one town was completely wiped off the map. one witness who managed to flee told amnesty -- "i don't know how many but there were bodies everywhere we looked." the nigerian military has claimed a toll as low as 150 but it could be as high as

but this is -- it's terrorism on women in this industry.s scaring every single one of us. >> why such hate why such anger? >> i think a lot of it comes from this idea that gaming is a male-dominated space. and that games are for men, by men. it's a very misogynist backlash. women are not meant to be treated with respect. >> reporter: something even the most casual female gamer is familiar with. watch what happens when the men in this online session of counter strike learn there's a woman playing in their midst. >> are you an archaeologist? i have a big bone for you to examine. >> reporter: it's less brutal than what anita and briana experienced but it does show the ease with which offensive behavior is tossed out at women. >> i'd give you my skin first if you know what i mean huh? >> i'm really just here to play like everybody else. >> reporter: but she's not treated like everyone else which is at the heart of gamergate. media critics argue women like stephanie need to stop being abused as players in the real world and as avatars in the vir