this way or women can't go up to the front or women can't. let's say a man and woman are mourning together and they are segregated in their morning. they collected stories that they collected a book of stories of women and their experiences of being segregated out of funerals of their loved ones. so there's a lawsuit happening and a lawsuit in the municipality over one of these women who have had that a devastating experience at the funeral of a loved one. >> you've had the experience of funding. we funded posters that had women's images and they were immediately vandalized. >> so there were a couple of facets to the removal of women. what i just described was the physical removal of women. what you are describing is removal of their faces. we thought it was the andrea merkel thing. but this has been going on for many years and like the iconic figure of hillary rodham clinton at the assassination of osama bin laden and she goes like this so that image was removed. she was erased out of that out of that picture so the array sure up women's pic

are women. (clapping.) >> last year in the united states the reported number of transgender who were murdered was one a month we know the statistic it coloring to two or three because one is recorded in the last 6 weeks in the united states there have been 5 transgender women regularityly murdered one in san francisco and 3 in california i want to recognize the translating population that are not here tonight bringing but their moreno one of their own brutalizing murdered february 1st and want to acknowledge a the latina population thank you rally of 2 hundred people that night 5 hours later a gay crime against a transgender we need to stop this and stand up against violence and not allow it to continue we need to talk about to each other and band together and work for each other and stand up for each other because the only family value that i recognize and that others is love thank you very much. (clapping.) >> there are partners we also want to continue to allocation and they arrive one is spe

but the women who won't have that choice are poor women. and that doesn't make a whole lot of sense i think. so if the women of your generation care about this issue, they will -- that's a message that i don't see talked about a lot, who will bear the brunt, i suppose if rowe vs. wade were overruled, who will bear the brunt. so if we care about our sisters who are less fortunate than we are, we will do what we can to see that they have roughly the same choices in life. >> thank you. in the back? please state your name. >> my name is malai. i'm an african-american. for those of us, as women who have been inspired by you justice ginsburg, for opening the doors for women over the course of the last few decades there's another group of us who are inspired to do work for women overseas. and whether it's in afghanistan throughout the middle east, and i'd like to hear from you, what advice you might have for those of us who wish to see the role of women growing to a place where they could look at their sisters in the united states or in the wester

senate, 70% of them are girl scout alums, the women. 54% of the women in the u.s. house of representatives, girl scouts. almost every single female governor. >> would you say it is true of the boy scouts as well? >> absolutely, it is an entire network. but my concern is building the pipeline. >> investing in girls at that age, six western states, arizona being one of them, comprise a third of the women in the house. and to the three states that have both female senators are western states. and start as girl scouts. as we talked about girls and how we invest, one of the things that i wonder is -- let me just ask. how many in the audience were girl scout? wow. a lot of hands are up. you are western women and girl scouts. what i wonder is what the girls were in girl scouts today, what friendly are starting -- who are in girl scouts today, what friend are they starting -- trend are they starting? >> the number one thing that comes to our mind, these are young women that are not waiting to make a difference. they are so elegant -- eloquent, they come from neighborhoods

the other women. that's something that is difficult to talk about and any society. one of the most insidious ways that women perhaps contribute to each other's oppression is by not being mindful, mindful, by themselves sort of buying into a male mindset where the other woman is the enemy and not the man who is at the center of this arrangement. that's a question, i think, for think, for the people who read to decide. where the blame lies in whether a different perspective and those limited choices can give you a different, you no a different breed of the situation or a different set of choices. >> thank you. i'm sure many of you have questions. about the book and how it's written. this is a good time to perhaps open up for those wanting to ask. >> be sure to come to the microphone. >> this is a question that my wife asks me many times. and she says so they're is this woman. the son the son loves the woman. his mother, she takes care of them. when he goes to become an adult she looks at his mother like

women. we have special names for aggressive women in our cultures. >> in this year's state of the union, president obama called for congress to address the gender wage gap. >> this congress still needs to pass a law to make sure a woman is paid the same as a plan for doing the same work. >> the paycheck fairness act, a bill designed on obama's watch to close loopholes in the 50-year-old equal pay act has repeatedly stalled in congress. >> it is a bad bill in disguise. it purports to help women, but will make them a legal liability for companies. >> number one it's illegal and number two they can't afford to do business without women. >> and with women the sole or primary breadwinners, in households with children under 18, gender gap will continue to be an issue not just for women but for the broaders economy. patricia sabga, al jazeera, new york. >>> women continue to be underrepresented in the workforce in every country and in every age group. they also hold fewer than a quarter of senior m

in particular were paid less and we know when she says women she means white women. she said later on something about women of color. >> but she did suggest that if black men made 1.36 than black women would be paging a dollar. no she didn't suggest that i'm paging that up patricia arquette. >> larry: do you think the combination of black and women make this-- is that the biggest issue to advancement in the workforce for you, that combination or is just a women thing. >> no it's definitely an african-american thing and it's being a female as well. i mean it's just like a woman said in the clip. 's dealing with the same issues that a lot of black men deal with advancing in the workplace and we're also dealing with a lot of issues that women deal with advancing in the workplace. i mean hi a white manager tell me one time that he was afraid of me. and anybody who knows me i mean i'm not-- i don't, you know come in with a gun or you know with gang signs or anything like that i'm just you know a typical black girl. and she told me she was afraid of me because i'm a strong

women and work, to protect pregnant women, to women, to protect mothers. there was something called mommy always back then which a women have to be allowed to leave to pick up the children are things like that. so women were expected to work from and there were a lot of images. in some ways they were ahead uncertain parameters. within all that there was what you call the contradictions. for example, -- >> we will get to those in a minute. stay on the images. so we are all familiar. you know the power of that image. we're still waiting to have a woman president in the united states. a woman prime minister. laws in place before we had a woman's movement in the united states. you had well-intentioned democracy from the get-go. perhaps a little flawed. let me ask you this what happened along the way? why is it that the feminist movement of the 1960s and the united states really kind of didn't happen until much later and you know, talk a little bit about those contradictions, those images. with a real, not real? the israeli feminist movement didn't really take

a favorite to women. the supreme court said in gwendolyn hoyt's case -- we went on the center of home and family life. therefore, they don't need to be on jury. gwendolyn hoyt floor to get the court to understand that citizens have obligations as well as rights, and one obligation is to participate in the administration of justice by serving on juries. the law said women are expendable. we don't need them to serve on juries. well the supreme court rejected gwendolyn hoyt's plea in 1961. and what happened in those 10 years in between? there was an enormous change in society. women were entering the workforce in increasing numbers. women were living many years longer than a day that the youngest child left the nest. birth control was more freely available. all of those changes in society led the law to catch up and that's what was happening in the 1970s. so i was fantastically lucky to be born when i was and to have the skill of a lawyer. in the rate to be brief there were the names of two women on the cove

women. 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 reins, and if

and latino women. >> >> representing women in removal proceedings and representing women who face sex discrimination in work. i am actively involved in legislative advocacy in support of the fair pay act of 2015 with state senator hannah beth jackson introduced this week on february 24. this work which is included in the research and legislative drafting has informed my in-depth understanding of california's persistent gender pay gap where women overall make 84 cents and latino and african-american make 64 cents on the dollar respectively and lower than supervisor campos' statements said in terms of the national pay gap. i care deeply about my san francisco community and the issue of pay discrimination against women and especially against women of color. i would apply my skills and knowledge and commitment to the equal pay advisory board in order to develop an effective and efficient system of monitoring contractors compliance with equal pay laws on the books for over 50 years now. thank you so much for consideration of my application and i will answer any questions that you have. >>

had was that the women some of the women when we sat in the front came down from the back of the bus sat down and assess in hebrew what we were doing and why. they themselves are wondering what is going on. the men some of them put their hats and came on the bus and refuse to sat down next to us. >> at not unusual for women to be gatekeepers of the pastry art. it's the phyllis schlafly's of the world. there's a lot of places where women take a role to preserve the gender order for lots of reasons. there are women for whom the gender inequality that we have this sort of comfortable in safe and what is known to them and i'm doing all of that is scary and threatening for whatever reason. sometimes the women are even more vehement in that we can't make change. denmark -- .. >> there is going to be an audio taping tonight, and if we get to that point, come to our audience microphone over here that way c-span and politics & prose will get your questions recorded as well as our author's answers to them. and lastly if you could do us a huge favor fold up your chairs lee them against -- leave

system against women. women's president's association is a very small association. that growth number is skewed. the average woman small business makes 250,000 in gross revenue a year. charles: have they been growing? >> they're growing, but not at exponential rates. one of the reason is funding. women's relationship with money. i've worked with women's groups all around the country. when i go to them and say why do you want to be in your own business, 99% of the time, no one mentions the word money. i'm sorry, if you don't want to make money, go volunteer somewhere. charles: you've crisscrossed the country. that's putting it mildly. you met all kinds of people, particularly small-business people. you've met women. you understand main main street's mentality. is it much ado about nothing? >> i think it is. there may be some gender bias if you allow it to get in the way of your success. many women will tell you they have to work harder, so what. we get there and stay there. there are more women ceos because

goes the men and women of the district attorney's office and the men and women in the police department and to every one of you that reached out to victims and let them know it is okay to come forward and provide information and that actually there are not victims but survivors again, i look forward to the day when we will not have to have this conversation but until that day comes i want toileitis let you knows that the michelangelo in my office we'll continue to send a message many of you there will be consequences for their behavior no one no one should have to live in fear and much less in the privacy of your own home thank you very much (clapping.) >> thank you district attorney isn't that amazing are you enjoying this? let's take this energy to continue the rising and create a social revolution for change it reflects the hard work of the community itself and today we want to honor all of our san francisco community partners who hard work created this revolution so, please shout out to dancing without borders for friends of the status of women black parenthood a band of women abc a

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

and women of color. a year later i was promoted to a admin role and i learned building code and learn plans and went to osha and day-to-day operations. regardless i was always seen as an assistant to my company. even after i was laid off and start by own business it was hard to pick up clients because many saw my experience and asked me this question how did you learn this? thinking all i was going to do is sit behind a phone and answer it and work on the computer, but when the opportunity came for me to go back to work full time i had some offers and my clients and one which was my old employer and offered my old job at part time at the hourly wage i made five years ago. when i said i wanted full time they said they would work in anotherad min position for me. another client said they could do better. they asked if i wanted to work for them full time and did the same thing at my old company along with all of the permits and building codes that i did on my own for so long. they asked me to submit a numbe

women.hocked by that. >> i was, too. in fact, 2 out of every 3 people who will have alzheimer's is a woman. so not only are they the most likely to be in fact diagnosed with alzheimer's, typically are the caregivers. and when you look at the research that's being done, it's miniscule in reference to cancer research. and when you look at the federal government and how much is being spent to provide health care through medicare, it's something like $200 billion a year. by 2050, it's going to be over $1 trillion a year just for alzheimer's care. so we've got to put more money into research so we can find a cure to alzheimer's. >> the conference is something you founded 26 years ago. you're not even old enough to >> okay.nded that. >> it's so amazing. i've had the great privilege of being there for so many years. why did you feel the need to do that? >> well, first of all, thank you for being such a great supporter or sponsor of this. i did it because i thought a woman needs a place to mnetwork

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

abigail's final statement on women's rights, written in may 1776 concludes by emphasizing that women themselves did not want full power. she first chided john for not recognizing his views of liberty should extend to women, paralleling an argument already being made by opponents of slavery and religious restrictions. although men's power was now absolute their arbitrary authority could be defeated by women's power to free themselves and subdue their masters. restrained and respectful authority would allow women some ability to sway decisions. abigail's letter follows the rhetorical pattern they have established earlier. she first calls male rule absolute and arbitrary. terms that had long been used to kree teak irresponsible power and to call for responsive as well as responsible leadership. women have the power to destroy this male control without violence, taking men's natural and legal authority and throwing it at our feet. abigail quotes british poet alexander pope in shifting the discussion from legal and constitutional terms. women would gain power she suggests, by accepting ma

i understand where they come from, who these women are. who better to send in and talk to them than someone who has been through it? that's what i do. >> it is 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 moettlezs is a well-known hot spot for the business of sex for sale in cook county. >> it's this one. >> male undercovers in one room begin making contact with women advertising sex for sale on back page.com. >> hi, this is tim. i'm look its at your ad on back page. i'm hoping you are available sometime today. >> would you be willing to come to me? i'm at a hotel in schiller park. >> meanwhile in a room across the hall, female undercovers post fake ads for sex on back page and lure johns to the hotel. >> are you going to come visit me. >> what time are you looking at? okay, i charge $90, frank, for a sul service for one hour, is that okay with you. >> he is calling for a date tonight, wants to know if i do greek, a common term for anal sex. >> i'm in the o'hare area. >> okay

half a million american women wore our sash. 70% women business owners. you look at congress -- you look at the u.s. senate, 70% of them are girl scout alumn the women in the senate. >> the women in the senate. >> are girl scouts. 54% of the women serving in the u.s. house of representatives, girl scouts. every single female governor, girl scouts. women in space, girl scout. >> would you say the same as a boy scout as well. >> it's a network. an entire network. my concern is building the pipeline. >> and investing in girls at that age another data point. six of our western states, arizona being one of them, comprise a third of the women in the house and three of the -- two of the three states that have both female u.s. senators are western states. and again started as girl scouts. you know, as we talk about girls and how we invest, one of the things that i wonder is what -- let me just ask, how many of you in the audience were girl scouts? just to start? >> a lot of hands are up. >> so you -- and so all of you and -- the girl scouts and from the west? so

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

leaving the women to take the blame. >> so sorry. first time, please, help me. >> this young woman who we'll call lily is sadly typical of thousands working in san francisco's massage parlors. >> thank you. >> you live in el monte, california? >> that's in southern california. >> yes. >> why are you here? where do you live? when you go home tonight, where are you going to go? >> lily fail to provide her address here in san francisco. a typical indication that she may very likely be staying right here in the massage parlor. >> ed, what does this look like to you? >> it looks like they're living here. two suitcases here full of clothes and there's shoes, there's bags of blankets. i would suspect that the lady we found in this room probably lives here. when we asked her where she lived, she didn't have an address. her i.d. says she is from el monte, california, which is in southern california. >> why would the women be living here? what does that indicate to you? >> that they are trafficked. they may not be here of their own volition. t

women. countries will not be successful if the half their populations are denied opportunities. [applause] america will continue to forge new partnerships and entrepreneurship's, and innovation, and science and technology. young people can start new businesses and create more prosperity just as we address economic grievances, we need to face a third challenge. addressing the political grievances that are exploited by terrorists. when governments oppress their people and denied human rights or marginalized ethnic and religious groups, or favor certain religious groups over others, it sows violence and makes those communities more vulnerable to recruitment. terrorist groups claim that change can only come through violence. it peaceful change is impossible that plays a extremist propaganda. the essential ingredient to real and lasting stability is more democracy. [applause] it is institutions. institutions that uphold the rule of law and apply just as equally. it is security forces and police t

and not just any women. what were the bad women doing? the defiant women, in the revolutionary became doing? some women did things like knit socks and sew uniforms and hold bizarres to raise money for supplies. other women became informal recruiting officers especially southern women. they shamed any man who shirked his duty to fight. there was a great story about one southern lady who was very embarrassed by the fact her fiancee did not enlist so she sent over her slave with a backage and the package contained a skirt and a note and the note said ware this skirt or volunteer. he volunteered. and some women dared to go further. and i wanted to find four such women, women who lied, spied, dranked, and murdered their way through the war, and i think i managed to do that. my goal with the book was to weave a tapestry and tell the story of the civil war, hopefully in a way that had not been told before and it was important to me that their stories intersected in interesting ways. there was a cause and effect. one woman's circumstances would a

instead of just men or women now women, white women dating black men and as a different category. it is the application of race. in a case that came out a few months ago hall, there was a guy who got married to his husband asked for health insurance they didn't get it. he said five marry a woman, i will get insurance. the employer put the classic line that sexual orientation is not covered under title vii. the court denied summary judgment. reading the complaint and is said if i was a man married to a woman, i will get health insurance. i am a man married to a man and i don't and that sex discrimination. the court said i do not see anything about sexual orientation. it was not about sexual orientation -- of course. it is just now that social norms have changed, the legal logic was always there. now, social logic has changed. in a way, social logic, cultural logic had to change the for legal logic could prevail and courts could see the words in front of them. last piece because i want to leave time for questions. lets mix included with this. 50 years ago, congress passed title vii.

instead of just men or women now women, white women dating black men and as a different category. it is the application of race. in a case that came out a few months ago hall, there was a guy who got married to his husband asked for health insurance they didn't get it. he said five marry a woman, i will get insurance. the employer put the classic line that sexual orientation is not covered under title vii. the court denied summary judgment. reading the complaint and is said if i was a man married to a woman, i will get health insurance. i am a man married to a man and i don't and that sex discrimination. the court said i do not see anything about sexual orientation. it was not about sexual orientation -- of course. it is just now that social norms have changed, the legal logic was always there. now, social logic has changed. in a way, social logic, cultural logic had to change the for legal logic could prevail and courts could see the words in front of them. last piece because i want to leave time for questions. lets mix included with this. 50 years ago, congress passed title vii.