To ed inll go winchester, virginia. That. Ize for morning. Caller thank you so much for on this morning. Im a father of two young girls. Supportive of womens rights. Im a baby boomer. I like to i think supported womens rights all my life. Youre right. You my opinion on why i think we will never get a female president. Even though i didnt vote for Hillary Clinton, because i do believe she was the right female for the office. Its Good Old Boys Network that exist in politics. We saw that. Its a signing of the new bill from congress and Donald Trumps meeting of the congress. With the exception, i believe females in black congressmen. Black menee female or behind donald trump. It was the Good Old Boys Network exist. If Hillary Clinton was elected, fromally expected to hear toitch mcconnell and say they will do everything just like did with barack obama to keep her from being successful. Now withing it withntling of presidency donald trump in the house and the senate. Run this female to country. We need more females. Go back to israel, all of the have free countries that had women, england especially, how much better off those countries are than we are with network. Old boys host inlouiza savage to pick up on that. In the polling you did with women running for office. Issue come up . The Good Old Boys Network. That. R you define was that something women running for office say, they thought decisionimpacted their to run . Guest i think it comes up in various ways. Theearlier caller who made point about Business Networks and fundraising, we certainly who runories of women for office are coming from a different background sometimes. Necessarily the ceo or the law partner. Raisedhey are people who a family first didnt develop the same kinds of network. Them to break for in. That doesnt mean theyre any as a candidate. It means theyre not part of the same kinds of networks. Thats changing as you see right now, women graduating from Business Schools and law the same rates. Its not higher than men. Thats generational issue. Issue that we heard about was just in terms of congress. Logistics. You have to live and raise your your district and work in washington. Senior level from republican strategist. A mom whilell be theyre spending workweek in washington and you see that in to runmen who decide statewide instead of staying in congress. Long distance to commute. Beld the congressional week made shorter . Could we change the culture that requires people to keep their families in their districts or be seen as selling out and becoming a part of the machine. N it would make the family life easier for men and women. Unlikely to happen any time soon. But those are some of the other about. Es weve heard host one more comparison in gap. R from Amanda Ripley story in politico. America has more female farmers and ranchers. Ofens proportion of Members Congress went down in 2010. Dayse state level, the when women made steady progress around same time as seinfeld. There are currently six female governors out of 50. Amanda ripleyad story, its part of the women rule series in politico. Louiza savage with us to talk it. T jeff is in crawford, nebraska, republican. Caller im 60 years old and i have two granddaughters. I hope that they can get the mix if at all possible. You, i dont think the democrats have people to look up to. You look at pelosi or waters. They are just mean people. When you look at that rally the president ial election, the abortion, nobody allow up there ifto come they didnt agree with abortion. To talk about money they have of money. They get it from the education. Not anons, money is excuse. Its because they are mean spirited. Guest plenty of mean spirited around. I think get really important point. Which is role model. Women that are in thesecs in holding offices, the more diversity of perspective and backgrounds you have. The more young women growing up this theysomeone identify with. Theres only one woman being held up there as model of you dont happen to agree or like her, theres inspiring to you. Thats where electing more women, whether theyre democrats republicans, whether at state or National Level is going to impact. R time bigger its incredible to me, we are stalled the way we are. Recentlyinating, i interviewed all things, a woman here from ambassador the country of rwanda. Telling me how their parliament is over 60 women because after the genocide there, it was women who were left to pick up the pieces. They really taken a leadership role. We cant begin to imagine that kind of majority scenario getting somewhere above 20 i think would certainly represent bigger diversity of views in this country. Host carel is in salisbury, line forolina, democrats. Caller the gender gap is not situation. The problem is when you live 74 see what isd you happened to the united states. People that are in politics, if they would have to do what the out here have to do, if they would get up and go this bulld stop all crap and all of this controversy the partyg money for and stuff, theyre an employ of the people. Go in to workto and do their jobs. Instead of picking apart the president that the people chose. Didnt need a woman president. But Hillary Clinton was not the president that we wanted. We want a president that can go and somebody that can get things done. There, theys in couldnt get anything done. They constantly stayed in problems. D they came into the white house problem life. Vote for ind you 2016 election . Trump. Donald host you usually vote democratic . This is first time you vote republican . Caller you vote for the person the party. Thats what im trying to get across to you. Host your perspective from north carolina. Makes a point you vote for the person and theres pipelinewoman in the and you dont like her and areces of electing women low. To see howeartening deep it goes. Childhood gap down to through political ambitions and recruiting. Work to beot of done. Well see if this has been a moment. Caller you commented about the woman being less involved in men. Nt government than i feel like the women that are in Student Government are very involved and very ambitious. I think its partially because, im not sure on millennials and kids in the 1990s have more ambition and desire to be in political and be more involved. Are . Can i ask how old you caller im 22. Host college Student Government . Caller yes. Guest thats a really interesting point. We saw especially in the last activism bylot of young people. I think this is something thats changing generationally. Seen, iistics ive believe this is 538 who did the study, if we keep electing women the same rate and increasing at the same rate it will take to getng like 150 years parody on the hill. We can wait for the generations behind. P i think the women who are far older and in careers now, they need to, i think, maybe adopt only of the optimistic views of throw theirion and hat in the ring if they feel they have something to offer. If these numbers are going to time soon. Host last minute question from twitter. Media shape women running for office . Deep and from twitter how ds media shape womens notions of running for office . P been aws like vee positive influence . Expect they are going to get a rougher treatment in the media, and in some ways they do in terms of the way they are scrutinized. However, deep Data Research on Media Coverage of men versus women candidates has found that coverage is pretty much the ,ame, so we do have examples whether it is Hillary Clinton or sarah palin being by the media but for most women candidates that is not the case. They should not let that stop them from considering running for office. Republican office, go ahead. About casesing before they get health care, these people need to work more. They work for us. Caller guest if your representative, if they had young kids, would it bother you if they moved their family to washington instead of having a shorter work week . What do you think would be better, if they have families and want to see them more . Veryr if you run, it is a noble cause to run. I am a republican conservative. Whatever you have to do to make it. You get change enough in congress if you get there, so move your family and do what you have got to do. But stop with the shorter work week. We cannot be talking that. 37th with kids in school, they are talking about shorter school weeks. Longer, more hours added, especially officials that are supposedly working for us. Host we appreciate the call. Lasta savage, you have the luiza savage, you have the last word. Caller we will have more guest we will have more investigations, more discussions to learn more and understand what it takes to get women in power and in politics and policy, and what difference do they make once they are there . Host the story we have been talking about today, what it will take for women to win. Luiza savage, thank you. Up next, it is our weekly your money segment. A programlk about that is 25 million in debt. We will discuss the National FloodInsurance Program with Stephen Ellis. We will be right back. Announcer tonight on the communicators i am a capitalist. I have no problem people making money i have no problem with people making money off of it. We have lousy ads, that are way too invasive. They slow down the loading of the website and they track your every move, and we need a way to deal with that. I propose that we start over. Announcer the second of a twopart conversation with walt mossberg, as he talks about the ethics of reviewing Tech Products and the future of technology. You ever watch star trek, there is a computer that is ambient. It understands your idioms. You can have a conversation with it and it knows everything. Honest to god, they all will have watched star trek. This is what everyone of these companies are gunning for. Announcer watch the communicators on cspan2. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies. It is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Washington journal continues. Host each week in this segment we look at how your money is at work in a different federal program. This week we are focusing on a program that is 25 million in debt. ,e are joined by Stephen Ellis to help understand why an effort to reform that program, the National FloodInsurance Program. Stephen ellis, who administers the program and who is it for . Guest