women's issues, particularly. they were presented women -- they represented women nationally. not all of them would agree with that, but the majority did. that was one thing that emerged. for me, at least. >> also, a lot of the women talked about the importance of hiring women staff, and also encouraging other women to run for office. so even though once they were there and the numbers were small, especially in the 1970's and 1980's, they realized there was a lot of attention on them, but they also wanted to be mentors to other women that were going to come to the institution. >> and of course, for some of the women entering congress in the earlier years, there were fewer women. what did they have to say about working with their male colleagues? >> it was a range of experiences. one of my favorite quotes was helen bentley, who served in maryland from the 1980's for more than a decade. and -- but she had come up through a very male oriented culture. she had been a reporter on the docks in baltimore. she worked with the federal maritime commission, had a lot of experience. and w

out of reach for women. if it had been allowed to stand, the law would have closed three-quarters of the clinics in that state that provided abortion services. if it had been allowed to stand hundreds of thousands of women would have no option but to travel hundreds of miles for their reproductive health services. but the texas law didn't stand. women's constitutional rights did. that supreme court ruling sent a strong message, one women have been making for years and one we continue to make clear today. politicians have no business interfering with a woman's most personal decisions. unfortunately, many people on the right continue to ignore that message. unfortunately they have continued to push for damaging, extreme policies that ignore the supreme court and the constitution and women across the country. from day one president trump and vice president pence have made it clear that turning back the clock on women's health and reproductive rights is a top priority for them. the recently proposed harmful dome

the idea that it was women and women alone who were spreading the infection.but that wasn't the whole story because it continued for decades after world war i ended. it continued into the 20s in the 30s and certainly spike during world war ii but continued for decades after world war ii ended. this was not a response to military necessity because if it were it would have stopped. rather this was a response to women having power. women were starting to get formal education for the first time. women were beginning to organize politically and to speak out. the suffrage campaign was active across the country and the women would get the vote nationally. at the same time. marital sex with skyrocketing in people for dating in new ways. divorce rates were up so this was in response to a change in social mores and the correct notion that women are gaining political power for the first time in a true way. american plan was a sexist program but it was also remarkably classist and races. nearly all of the women incarcerated under the american plan were working-class and a

into facts that women game as well and that's why women can and should also develop games also has had the games address a female audience i don't think women develop fundamentally different games just because they're women that maybe they can approach things from a different perspective. future technologies are profiting from input by women. viewed as the internet's next step of evolution it can be used to decentralize finances trade and state governance making them more transparent and fair so far block change trailblazers are predominantly men. it's often i think women are actually being trained not to take risks and that's the case with technology it hasn't established itself in a way that i can explain it to my grandparents and tell them i'm working on block change technologies and they'd say that's my girl. and was willing to take the risk with a ph d. in physics she's worked at columbia and stanford in twenty seventeen she left science to begin managing the block chain startup gnosis. she is now also the head of a nationwide digital currency and block chain lobby group the germa

we women professors and women lawyers were each familiar to each. it may be hard for you now in a room like this, tonight, to imagine a time like ours. when we went to law school and even when we first taught there were very few women in the halls, classrooms and curriculum. it didn't matter we were very smart. some of us were even funny. [laughter] professor babcock: no one was interested in helping us find legal work or advancement in the profession. we were on our own. nor did we recognize that we were part of a great women's movement which would come to be known as the second wave. not only were ruth and i among the first women law professors in this country, we soon began teaching the first courses that focused on women. we gave them simple names. women and the law. not complicated structures having to do with the meaning of gender or gender law and public policy. we also wrote books and articles and texts on the subject. in the face of colleagues who questioned whether there would be enough material for a book or a course. now, we laugh when w

the more women out there doing things, the more women will believe that they can do things. that would be my answer to your second question. [ applause ] >> thank you, justice ginsburg and professor babcock. i'm over here to your left. for all of your inspiration. i have your first book, professor babcock. i got it when you were at the national association of women's lawyers meeting many years ago in california, and i'm looking forward to reading the second one. i'm going to follow up on the last question and something that professor babcock said earlier. this association, the american bar association, and all numeronewma numerous women lawyer groups have studied why women are leaving the profession early on and later in their careers and also produced surveys showing the stagnation of women once they get into partnership ranks, not moving up into leadership roles. interestingly, in this city and slowly across the country, a lot of judges are responding to this by including in their rules very specific directions about giving opportunities to younger lawyers, including women

women and the law. not complicated structures having to do with the meaning of gender or gender law and public policy. we also wrote books and articles and text on the subject. in the face of colleagues who questioned whether there would be enough material for a book or a course. now, we laugh when we think about it. especially because, the whole time that ruth was in the court, most notably, the u.s. supreme court, bringing the cases that would supply plenty of material for the book. another story that we share with other early women law professors is that we did not set out to be feminists. much less feminist law professors. rather, we fell into it. rather, we were pushed by our students. ruth ginsberg was interested in civil procedure. particularly as practiced in the scandinavian country. even further, my interests from my earliest days were in studying and practicing criminal defense law. i was the director of the public defender service in washington, d.c. and ruth ginsburg was teaching procedure

so a very diverse group of women. >> and women who, some of them came of age before the women's rights movement and so they had a much different experience in terms of societal expectations for what they would do when they were young women, and then women who came after the 1960s and '70s and grew up in a much different environment. >> were there any other differences that you noted in the difference in eras and times in which the women served? >> that's a great question. so one theme that really emerges from a lot of these interviews, i think, is kind of the role or the expectation that all of them took on, that they were what political scientists would call surrogate representatives, that they didn't just represent the people in their own district. on women's issues particularly, they represented women internationally. not all of them would agree with that, but a majority of them did. and that's one thing that emerged with me, i guess. >> also a lot of women would talk about the importance of hiring women staff and also encouraging other women to run for office. so even though once t

among young women. but for the time being women and men attend separate lectures. these up and coming young professionals are confident they can hold their own in this traditionally male domain splits you direct link we have to go inside talk to all this workers and deal with all these concrete things and so on and the he and the does the trick if it is. in order to be something you have to fight you have to do it the effort in order to do something so actually we're not fighting on you or any of centuries ago if one thing but he tried to yeah they live you know you see i got hotter and stuff i think you can imagine. a teacher is slightly less optimistic about his students futures. this is my nightmare ok to be honest. they find jobs at the private sector. ok but our problem these days. is the governmental body. they don't have jobs for females as an architect or as interior architect for all her barbie is working hard to change that and ensure her students will find their place on the job market she di

house of representatives are women, when you see that over 50 candidates for the senate are women, womenoming out in droves. guess what? they do not all look the same, which i think is fantastic. emily: i like to think successes when a woman engineer or ceo is normal. or a woman running for president or being president is normal. will that happen in our lifetime? melinda: yes. absolutely it will. i completely agree with you. when you have women at the top, and the reason it is important, is a role model. other girls can look up and go, i can be like her. i can be like that movie producer. i can be like that director. i can be like that person who is creating amazing content. those role models are important. you are really seeing it happen. the sparks are all there. we need to help keep it going. emily: and a woman president too? do you think that will happen? melinda: in my lifetime, definitely, i think that will happen. emily: melinda gates, thank you for joining us. it has been great to have you. ♪ ♪ manus: you are watching the "best of daybreak: middle east." the major stories driving

there is a better way to treat women. i hope they recognize that this is not just for women. i just want more people to do that. i know it's just a book. and i don't belabor that books are gonna save everything and everyone. i know we love to tell ourselves that as book people but that's not true. but i do things that books can contribute to goodness and to more empathy i think if it does one thing it is to expand empathy people need to read more. especially people that are organizing in communities. they need to read more. one of the things i wanted to bring up about that is that i don't know if you saw dave chapelle's thing. it's unfortunate because there is a level of things. what was so frustrating about that. gear the most sensitive person in the world when it comes to race. you've all of the nuances there. you are able to go fully there with the jokes. but then somehow when it comes to gender you just missed the mark. drastically and it's always that way. we are always the butt of the joke. you're never putting it back on the men and making fun of how crazy and ridiculo

dr it was something that money hundreds of women in afghanistan actually hundreds of thousands of women experience if you're good to see a doctor you had to be accompanied by a male company and from your family now can you imagine those women who were either not married or had no male relatives in their families they never managed to go to see a doctor so it's to the other two days that doing the mojahedin time when they were joined in were fighting against the soviets backed regime in kabul a lot of money came was i was invested for maternity group from the western countries and the united states without as you rightly said without putting some benchmarks in terms of human rights and women's rights situation as a result the money was spent to support groups by some of the intelligence of the neighboring country on one hand on the other hand this money partly was used also to support other extremism and article that equalized group in the region which literally eventually they came to afghanistan and afghanistan as a country that has a history of civilization was eventually used by diff

this was about and trolling women and it was any women authorities wanted, effectively. there are a number of examples of male authority figures using the rules to get back at women who had jolted them. we have evidence of that. once women were inside these institutions they were not only treated for these but were also supposed to be morally reformed. and what that meant was a lot of labor. it would make product, they wouldclean floors, they would raise crops . there were beatings and there were more draconian forms of punishment like dowsing women with cold water, shaving one's head . there was evidence for the injection of nauseating chemicals and although the records are sketchy, we know for a fact that at least several hundred women were subject to eugenic realization. you might be wondering why this program began and the answer on its face is that this was a responseto world war i. as mark connolly wrote . authorities have been trying to combat sexually-transmitted infections for decades and for good reason. they were rampant because there were no effective treatme

especially for instance when women are deprived of going to school. due to the war during the turn of underwood had to stay whole that's a program that is created by the politicians by the government and definitely we need somehow international support for to serve problems to get to the pick but i. meant here would be the changes that the women of afghanistan see today. just. as they should have a suspicion that comes from this society did come to the grassroots level if you go to the communities right now people especially women would like to see their daughters to go to school they would like to you know that the changes are from the grassroots level and i think that to live versus to take it back to the taliban preview it is not possible because here this woman people of color some want to see the chain medical care i'm sorry for jumping in but i want to take an issue with what you just sad that it's not possible to refer to traverse that changes because that's obviously how we solve approach that issue back in the night and eighty's they believe

of women on boards, or women ceo's.hen i initially went into philanthropy, i thought, i am going to stay away from this women's issue. women in health, women's issues, maybe those were the soft issues. but i have since learned, is that those are actually the fundamental and the hard issues. if we don't solve those, we will not get major change for the world. so my aspirations and bill's aspirations, whether it is health, whether it is decision-making, whether it is economic opportunity, we will not get there as a world if we don't make the right investments in women. emily: in computer science, women hit their peak, earning 37% of degrees in 1984. that has since plummeted to 18% and has been flat for the last decade. similar numbers when it comes to the number of jobs women are holding in this industry. you lived this. what went wrong? melinda: it looks like when the gaming industry turned, when the games became more male games, up -- whend the you think about it a early games that i played, pac-man, the adventure games

to make the first move would you like women to be the first to kiss would you like to have women be the first to. invite you into the bedroom and ninety one percent of men say yes they would love to have women take over some of this role but women don't do it. everywhere in the world my guess is that probably just about everywhere women expect men to make that first move and here we are in an age where men are scared to make the first move don't know how to make the first move don't know what's right to make the first move and women are really sitting around waiting for them to make the first move so in this time of tremendous transition. men are going to have to sort of dope it out and women are going to be clear or women are going to get it gone in the first. one doesn't feel it and man want it because they're afraid it can be seen as harassment who is going to do that first move. i think we're going to go back to having men make the first move and i think you know women are beginning to invite men out they'll invite them out in the group they'll say well i've got one extra theate

there were no women doorkeepers, no women police officers on capitol hill. there were all sorts of areas that were off limits to women. we were not supposed to go there. we didn't even have a restroom. it was like, what are we going to all have bladder infections? i remember one woman in the senate from senator smith from maine. and when she returned, senator quick made a tv room out of a restroom, like there wouldn't be any more women coming. we had that one and she's gone, so take over the space. there was an awful lot of that. women pages. we didn't have any young girls for pages. women had not -- it was a male plantation. and i'll never forget walking out one time on -- there's a porch right off the speaker's lobby and i thought i'll go out and sit on the porch. it was a nice day. and oh, my word, it was like i had violated every law in the book. there were guys out there sunbathing. they had taken their trousers off. and i'm sorry, it never occurred -- so, you know. and, of course, the gym was a place where many things happened and women, they finally d

market --e women's women of's march, all kind coming together and forng we want opportunities women, and we want our government to be responsive to that. the marches simulated other efforts. me too was unbelievable. this has been going on forever. sudden, people in positions of power are taking and of it and doing things, telling people who have been very bad at others, we don't want -- actors, we don't want you anymore. it is a phenomenal development. [applause] just the number of women who are going to be running for office , anotherxt election thing that gives me great hope. [applause] >> i just finished my first year of law school, it was tough, i made it. [applause] before going to law school, i came -- i know what it is like to work in an industry where women are not taken as seriously as men. it is hard to hear that women are going through these three years of tough classes and leaving. what it seems to be from conversations i have had with other female attorneys, is there comes a point where they have to choose between family and their career. there might be other reasons, bu

for women as a. as an urgent that the worst and the you it and the national community is in favor because women freedom came along with the fall of taliban. together with this if you situation americans and they do come to afghanistan so many people in afghan so what we got. initially opposed to doesn't one with the good woman movement and progress as part of the american or the west kind of intervention and support but not all of these things are changing the perspective is changing i think a lot of people will regard this as a as a well i guess my problem with the me to movement and globalizing it to such extent is that it is primarily about taking on the male patriarchy reach may be the case for western countries but i think it's a rather limiting perspective for the rest of the world and particularly for afghanistan where as you articulated it's not just an issue of pet patriarchy it's also a very complex historic political geopolitical even it can and they cannot make a sure because you may educ

then reimagining the occupation as a moment of women to women transnational encounter involving women of varieties of racial and national background. today, i presentation won't speak about war brides per say, but more about the background and context that existed at the time. despite the seeming innocence and insignificance, women's lives in postwar okinawa were deeply political. where things such as gender, race, class, nation and empire all played very, very important role. these important archival materials that are located in okinawa and michigan, and also washington, d.c.. i want to take a closer look at domestic sentiments and activities of women, so as to understand the context from which the stories of war bride emerged. that is the way i want to make a connection between my ongoing research and the topic of this symposium. womenn thinking about the and then home, and then nation empire question in american occupied okinawa, i have three issues at the very outset. first and foremost, u.s. occupied okinawa points to the significance of gender, especially domesticity. things re

very clumsy about it and men have to learn to read women's cues better but women have to learn to send very clear cues so that men know what they're doing so what's the distinction between sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior can we count on a cultural difference i mean should we approach russia with an american standard for instance yeah this is a problem and we've got all kinds of international standards even within america even within the same social said i mean some men don't know now when i walk towards the door with an open the door for me and be sort of a traditional gentleman or whether they let me open the door because they don't want to offend me as a feminist so it's a time of tremendous transition not only between cultures but within cultures even in the same city even people of the same age group so as we redefine what is appropriate and what isn't appropriate and what is sexual harassment i think we're going to create a new group of taboos and rules and we're in the middle of that transition now some people have compared me to with a witch hunt do you feel it migh

future women to run? >> i hope so. i hope so. let me tell you a story. i now live in florida and we have a thing called ruthless. hard to say. we do this because we are trying to encourage women to run and ruth ryan owens the first woman from florida. where ever i got to press i thought about how all these early women had the feel and she was one of the ones, i can't imagine what it was like. she had a district from miami to jacksonville and she drove her self and got creamed in every paper, who is this husky driving around by her self and she wins. and he shows up and -- she shows up and the guy she defeats will not leave because he said she is no longer an american. she married a british officer wounded in world war one. this is 1926. it took her a year. finally she got her seat. imagine what that woman went through. then imagine when she walked down on the floor the greetings she got from her colleagues who were standing with the guy she defeated. that must have been lot of fun. whenever i used to thin

to women who do want that. and that's again something entering sure that there is a significant percentage of women who are in. paid work life and the ability and health that you didn't tell you or anyone to believe will want to have that kind of need to be providing their. own incident and then. share yeah well i just you know that's that's really spot on because i would stress that word choice and i think no one is suggesting that women have to work because in the poorest countries in the world the labor force participation of women is the highest because they had no choice but to work it's really about the choice to go to work and also work decent work jobs productive jobs and so this is really the crux and i think you know porton positive trend has been the increased education of of girls and young women in india then a really important gains have been made in the two thousand during this period but that you know the the real challenge is once these young women have education and you know there's a passing

it was a small group of women. were you one of 14 women at the time. because there were so few of you, did you gravitate towards each other? once were you in the house? >> well, yes and no. i remember sitting down next to the then-dean of the women. who was a woman named lenore sullivan from missouri. and i'm pat schroeder and i'm new here and what should i call you? and she said my name is mrs. john sullivan. and i said i know that, what should i call you? and she said my name is mrs. john sullivan. and i thought we're not going to have a lot of bonding here. we had at that time, i think it was almost half of the women here, had inherited, not inherited really, but had run for their husband's seats after their husband had died. and not all of them, but some like mrs. john sullivan thought they weren't just the woman, they were carrying forward, his agenda. whatever that is. so there were the patsy minks and the bella abzugs, and shirley chisholm, yes. there was a nice bonding there. and then there's the others, oh, mar martha, from michigan, martha gr

it's because women need to feel relevant outside of the home and the society really it's men and women scientists just jump in there yes just on that i just on that point i think it's it is important to you know in our in our group in what was just me to just said but i think it's. it's important to stress that you know i think the sixty six and i'm sure all of us are not suggesting women are not working they aren't you know they're working very much in the household is that the burden of domestic care except in the crux of the matter is working outside the home and what are the opportunities and the choice to . join the labor market is find jobs in growing sectors and from another perspective we would stress the importance of accessing well ity employment as well and the opportunity to also start their own businesses and in seeing that perspective i think what it of many just hand out and balancing i mean this is something that actually has toned down reporting around this but i am not personally feeling is because i'm lannister that essentially the government doubling of maternity le

to make the first move would you like women to be the first to kiss would you like to have women be the first to. invite you into the bedroom and ninety one percent of men say yes they would love to have women take over some of this role but women don't do it. everywhere in the world my guess is that probably just about everywhere women expect men to make that first move and here we are in an age where men are scared to make the first move don't know how to make the first move don't know what's right to make the first move and women are really sitting around waiting for them to make the first move so in this time of tremendous transition. when men are going to have to sort of dope it out and women are going to be clear or women are going to get it going away the first time we don't want to steal it and man want it because they're afraid it can be seen as harassment who is going to do that first move. i think we're going to go back to having men make the first move and i think you know women are beginning to invite men out they'll invite them out in the group they'll say well i've go

academic women. so i began to see possibilities in their lives that i was able to imagine for my own. emily: you were the first harvard president without a harvard degree. you went to the university of pennsylvania after graduating from bryn mawr with a history degree, then became history professor. drew: i was a student activist in college, very involved in politics, civil rights issues, vietnam war protests, and cared a lot about changing the world and having an impact on the world. when i graduated from college i worked in the department of housing and urban development, and i hoped in an idealistic way to move into maybe urban planning or some area that would enable me to carry on my concerns about public service and changing the world. but i so missed intellectual life and ideas and the kind of debate that is at the heart of a university, so i applied to graduate school and went back and got a phd at penn, which eventually led me to a focal to -- a faculty position at penn that i held for 25 yea

way toght what better learn about women than from the women who served. we interviewed staff, as well. some of the stories we learned, the experiences these women have had have been wonderful to learn more about. >> we have done about 40 interviews, 30 of which are published on our website. roughly 25 are former women members. it is a unique snapshot. the span of service goes back to the mid-1960's, and all the way up through 2010. it is the real range. >> in terms of the backgrounds, what range do these women represent? >> very different. they are from the different political parties. different ages. we interviewed women that came to congress, women who were younger and had children. we interviewed a few that described themselves as grandmothers. also different regions, northeast, midwest, western states. a big difference. some women had very little political experience, others grew up in political families. agend women who came of before the women's rights movement, they had a much different experience, in terms of societal expectations for what they wo

it's because women need to feel relevant outside of the home and the society you know it's men and women scientists just jump in there yes just on that i just on that point i think it's it is important to you know in our in our group in what was just me to just said but i think it's. it's important to stress that you know i think this is the sixth and i'm sure all of us are not suggesting women are not working they aren't you know they're working very much in the household is that the burden of domestic care except in the crux of the matter is working outside the home and what are the opportunities and the choice to. join the labor market and find jobs in growing sectors and from an i don't perspective we would stress the importance of accessing well ity employment as well as the opportunity to also start their own businesses and the see in that perspective i think you also want to repine this a. lot and i was feeling i mean this is something that actually hits home and reporting that around for that i'm not but really meaning it because i'm one of the that isn't getting the government d

women trying to sensitise not only women, we are also trying to sensitise men of those areas, and wenot declare the result until we have 10%. the election campaign here remains all about the man. the candidates say they don't support the ban on women voting, yet they have done nothing to change it. this time, though, they can't ignore women and their vote a ny they can't ignore women and their vote any longer. that election is coming up on wednesday, and we will have much more special coverage on that coming up more special coverage on that coming upa more special coverage on that coming up a cross more special coverage on that coming up a cross bbc world and bbc world news. join us for that later this week. a little earlier i spoke to the associate vice president of the us institute of peace in washington dc. i began by asking him how well the initiative to have more women registered in pakistan to vote is being received in the country. i will say in pakistan it is a bit peculiar, because you have these pockets, various areas in pakistan, where this has been a long—standing problem

because the dup are very anti—women, they are very anti—women's reproduction of—— are very anti—women'sould say they are not anti-women. well, i think we have to be very clear at all of things going on in the background. if we are going to discuss a change to the law, as well as a change... there are law, as well as a change... there a re two law, as well as a change... there are two things, one is the change to the law. we are still effectively governed by the offences against the person act... parliament voted last year to get rid of that act. the mood in parliament has changed. i think there is now a view that it is time to review the 67 act and see if it is still fit for purpose. my deep concern is that there are other political reasons going on with the government that are preventing the health secretary from doing something that is in his purview to do right now. this message has come m, do right now. this message has come in, another anonymous message, last year my ex—partner suffered from... severe morning sickness? it is what the duchess of cambridge had. for ten weeks, she was

she was was a brilliant women. she blazed many trails and did so with great and confidence. -- grace. her sex and her circumstances could not held her back. she created the next generations of women leaders after her. and our institute is working with many young women around the country at seminars and fellowships. if you want to find out go to tblti. org. when clare died on october 19, 1987, time magazine -- henry died several years before. editors called her the renaissance woman of the 20 century. indeed she was. thank you. >> we have time for questions if anybody has questions. >> i loved the book title and i will search on amazon to find them myself. >> people do not realize what a prolific writer she was and she was was home schooled essential. four years of home schooling. . >> amazing. >> her father when he was with the family was a musician so they moved here and here and it's the argument a child who is bright and curious can learn a lot on their own. >> any questions? i know that you have so many chapter

so the men are forced to send women to the polls.women are going to say they want to go, as well, and that's how you begin the process. then you work on the grassroots level, convincing men and women at the same time that this is good for them, for their society, for the country. and, over time, you have begun to see changes. because, as i said, many neighbouring areas, much of pakistan doesn't have this problem. so it's relatively easy to point to those areas and say, well, if women can do it there, why not here? again, it's not going to happen overnight, but i think there is movement. at least i working in this area, quite frankly, i'm optimistic that over time this is going to change for the better. well, we can see a change already in that more women are registering to vote. but when it comes to the choices that they have, and engaging them in politics, making them interested in it, how do you go about doing that? pakistan is schizophrenic in this sense. you've got urban areas, you've got elite women who are in politics in number

there are issues like documentation status that terrorize women and women who have spoken today who are transgendered who do not feel safe in your criminal justice system so we need to look at these issues that compound sexual assault and need to figure out how to allow women to feel safe to come forward in the first place and get medical treatment which they so richly need and deserve and then there are countless women who go to the second where the rape is their secondary medical issue and they are in such bad shape because they are living on our streets and they have a serious substance abuse addiction and they are not sexually assaulted just once but that is a regular part of their life living on the streets of san francisco. we need a safe place for survivors to go so they don't go back to the same street where they are sexually assaults again and again and again. the sharp office is one intervention in a much larger intervention that needs to take place in the city and county of san francisco and all over the country. sharp is just one intervention but so critically important. it

and this is men near a con at work in a women's center. in hind your bad she tells us she's nineteen but doesn't know exactly when she was born. near was only eleven years old when her parents sold her for fifty thousand rupees the equivalent of eight hundred euros. no one asked me my relatives came together and decided to marry me off to a seventy five year old man from amman they only told me on the day of the wedding when i saw the old man all i could do was cry i tried to protest and said i'm far too young. he's got me. india outlawed child marriage in two thousand and six but in munir is case as with many other women here the marriage broker used falsified documents a corrupt imaan precisely did over the wedding ceremony munira was forced to go with the old man for three weeks he sexually abused her in a hotel in hyderabad then he disappeared when the man was informed that munir was pregnant he divorced her over the phone from oman that was eight years ago until recently the muslim practice of instant divorce was legal in india when t

more women. these three women want to build a better world through technology but they've had to fight bias in a sector dominated by men. one example over the past decades eighty eight percent of patents in the u.s. were registered by men the tech pioneers agree this needs to change virtual reality is seen as a technology with huge growth potential to transports users beyond the boundaries of the physical world to my experiences whether for entertainment therapeutic or educational purposes as many different fields of application but women are barely involved in its development. i don't think you know any such defense in the technology that if we're. stopping women from entering this is because the naturally thing that it is a very complex. area of technology. studied computer science in india after that she developed a program open source software conferences around the world she speaks about to be our applications and web browsers her goal is to inspire other women. in the building of any applic

this america is about women's empowerment. women having a voice. miss america is about achieving your educational desires so you can achieve what you want. it is about -- regina: miss america is in every city, town, country, state, in this country. into any townk without seeing miss america. she might not be miss america, but actually she is miss america. you know, we have women who are former state title holders who are lawyers for boeing. a former miss wisconsin performed the first pediatric face transplant in the world. miss wisconsin, former first president of the america medical association. former miss georgia. they are everywhere. californiaent to recently to help them with their arbitration bill, the female representative was second runner-up of miss maryland and paid for law school at georgetown from participating. so every place that i go i meet somebody who has participated. through all my troubles of the last two years. we just want to encourage more young women to see it for what it really is, which is a program about leadership, talen

women want to be in life. i mean, it's -- i want to just up to so many young girls who didn't think that it possibly for them. like the woman you met when you came into the lobby. you know. video of the african-american young woman who had competed in our system who amazing talent but she was always told she just ouldn't win because she was just ten pounds overweight. >> yeah. you should look at that. testament.mazing it really is. reallye're just excite is about more women at having the ability to take part in our program. >> thank you. >> thank you. we are adjourned. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] announcer wednesday, the house returns life at noon. live at noon. on cspan2, the senate continues work on a federal spending package to find financial services, transportation, housing and urban development, and agriculture and related agency.

and i was sitting in this room with some of the most amazingly talented women and men, mostly women, though, that i had ever met. and there were baby boomers all the way down to millennials and whatever the next one is. and i -- it was this focus group of why miss america is important and why they wanted to give their time and their talents to this. think about that. they like to say they're giving a few hundred thousand dollars. no, they're not. they're giving a lot of their time and talent to helping them envision, re-vision, re-market miss america. so when i was walking into this meeting late, as i usually am, there was a young woman who was sitting at the front desk. and i said, i'm regena hopper. she said, who are you here to see? rubecan, and she said, who are you here to? and i said, miss america. and she said, miss america? and her eyes popped out. she was probably 22 or 23 years ago. and she said, wow. and i said, yeah, no, i'm not miss america. and she said, yeah, i can tell that. but she said, you know, i could never be miss america. and so i said, well, why? and she goes,

are women not funny?t's like, no, they're oppressed, you dumb idiot. >> you've had a great career. >> and i would do it again. i would much rather be your wife than amount to anything. >> of course, there have always been funny women. it's just a matter of whether the society that they were in was willing to let them be funny. >> we have with us this evening an international star, miss fanny bright! >> it wasn't until the late 1800s and the early 20th century that women started becoming really famous as comedic performers. >> a lot of them were comediennes. a woman who gets up on stage is funny, but she sings and dances. >> wait a minute, the music stopped. >> well, i didn't hear it. >> she didn't hear it. >> she's more of an entertainer than just the straight comic. >> that is kind of what was allowed. it was not really accepted for a woman to stand on stage and tell jokes and give their opinion to a bunch of men. until jean carroll. >> most fellows have a tough day at the racetrack, they get nasty. but