prevent global destruction are expected to be the major topic of president reagan's news conference tonight. that conference will be nationally televised within the hour. lesley stahl is at the white house. >> the white house is hoping corrections >> in the '80s, women came into the newsroom. when i first joined it was 72. there were very few. by the '80s, there were more and more. >> the decade of the '80s was still a time of sink or swim. you had to be resilient in your own way, to survive, in a period were you were going up against a lot of people who still did not think that women had what it took. >> these are some of the most famous faces in broadcasting, all of them happen to be women. >> the best producers at cbs news are women, and they are at the level of taking hold and making decisions about individual pieces. they are not executive producers of all the news shows, but they will be. >> for the past 24 hours, christine kraft has taken her cause too many of the nations news and talk programs.