Good evening, everybody. Im betsy fisher, the executive director of the women in Politics Institute at American University and. Welcome to our virtual series, women on wednesdays. Were glad youre here. To those of you need to want a bar. Wpi is a nonprofit and nonpartisan institute and a school of Public Affairs that aims to close the gender gap in political leadership. And we offer academic and practical campaign training, and we facilitate research and discussions like this on women, politics and leadership and. Tonight, we want to discuss a question that really is at the heart of so many conversations about in politics. Its also the subtype title of a new book, electable why america hasnt put a woman in the white house dot, dot, dot yet by ali vitali, who covers for nbc news before her post on hill, however, she covered both 2016 president ial election. Of course, saw a woman as the democratic nominee and Hillary Clinton and the 2020 president ial election saw a record breaking six
Women on wednesdays. Were glad youre here. To those of you need to want a bar. Wpi is a nonprofit and nonpartisan institute and a school of Public Affairs that aims to close the gender gap in political leadership. And we offer academic and practical campaign training, and we facilitate research and discussions like this on women, politics and leadership and. Tonight, we want to discuss a question that really is at the heart of so many conversations about in politics. Its also the subtype title of a new book, electable why america hasnt put a woman in the white house dot, dot, dot yet by ali vitali, who covers for nbc news before her post on hill, however, she covered both 2016 president ial election. Of course, saw a woman as the democratic nominee and Hillary Clinton and the 2020 president ial election saw a record breaking six women run for the white house. And one woman, of course, elected as president. So were thrilled, ali here with us tonight to talk about front row seat on the c
Political leadership. And we offer academic and practical campaign training, and we facilitate research and discussions like this on women, politics and leadership and. Tonight, we want to discuss a question that really is at the heart of so many conversations about in politics. Its also the subtype title of a new book, electable why america hasnt put a woman in the white house dot, dot, dot yet by ali vitali, who covers for nbc news before her post on hill, however, she covered both 2016 president ial election. Of course, saw a woman as the democratic nominee and Hillary Clinton and the 2020 president ial election saw a record breaking six women run for the white house. And one woman, of course, elected as president. So were thrilled, ali here with us tonight to talk about front row seat on the campaign trail and help us reflect on the progress been made and the progress yet to made. But before we start i want to let everybody know that were going to save plenty of time for your quest
The dow rows 1. 6, and the s p 500 rows up 1. 3 and nasdaq up 1 . For the week, the s p 500 which is a good proxy for 401 kay is, in fact, lower than it started 1 . Not everyone thinks that this v shape it may fall further before were out of the woods. Who knows. No one really, thats why i stick with my recommendation that todays rally is no guarantee that rain clouds wont appear and drench your portfolio some time soon. But strong earnings and Economic News helped investors look past worries about europes economy and fears of ebola on the earnings front. General electric, honeywell, both reporting higher profits compared to a year earlier. Morgan stanley, the stocks of these three companies rose on their financial results. Well get a bunch more earnings next week. In the olden days stocks used to move on the basis of whether the companies that they were part of were going to earn more money or lose money. So today at least fundamentals grove this market. A measure of u. S. Consumer co