Shooting no justice. Sparking protests near san diego. Are you okay . And search for answers. Im not allowing anybody to go in there. That deadly commuter train crash in new jersey. The ntsb tries to gather rns evidence, does this recorder hold the clue to what caused that accident . Hey, good morning. Happy saturday. Welcome to october, everybody. A few quick bits of business. Before we dive in. First, paula is off on this saturday morning. Were happy to have the amazing cecilia vega on the set. Glad to be here. And two, you may have noticed that were all wearing pink. In rachels case, pinkish. Or very pink. Rons case, electric pink. All to kick off a very serious Breast Cancer awareness month. Which well be talking about coming up a little bit later in definitely. And on a very serious front, we start with the breaking news. Hurricane matthew now a powerful category 4 storm. Heading toward jamaica. Packing winds of more than 150 Miles Per Hour. The possibility of up to 25 inches of r
If you cant see it, trust me its here. So when the q a start make a line at the microphones. If the event is over if you can fold it over and place it by the book shelf and then we will have a book signing. Some of his preview books include, alice behind wonderland, diversity, mystery and how we are now shaping it. , so please welcome simon winchester. Thank you for welcoming me and i must say leads me to believe that the publicity gods are on my side. The chinese and the americans are at log heads in the South China Sea which i write about extensively in the book. Over in england foreign minister is pleading the British Government to allow the displaced people to be allowed to settle in britain because the island that they were displaced to is now being at at treasoned. And then finally hurricane patricia. Last week turned out to be a dud, didnt kill anybody. It wasnt on the front pages. That demonstrated the big weather problems being generated in the pacific. I think, chapter eight.
Chance to make that the center of your research, and we cover just about everything. Its just like any other class where you take exams and write papers. Host what do you do with a womens study major . The short answer is law school. Many of my best students gone on to be title ix lawyers. Many go abroad. They work with women Birth Control the issue of violence against women in regions ranging from Northern Africa to bosnia. Many students do development in term of nonprofit. They do programming for everything from planted parenthood to organizations that work with women and girls. I have a couple of students who have gone on to med school and do specialties in womens health. Quite a few have been nursing, and i have a lot of students who are also as athletes involved in furthering women sports. Some are trainers. I have one in the olympics right now. I have another student interning at the winter games who is hoping to do some reporting on the situation of homophobia in russia. Host ko
Wrong with looking at half the worlds history. And i have negotiated many of these things throughout my teaching career. The idea is that i wanted to talk back but in a cheerful way. A cheerful and playful way. And i wanted to be the smiling face of womens studies and womens history so that as a diplomat from academic feminism i am approachable and i love my students, but enough with being rude to the professor. People would come by and say that i love your class. You not at all this way. And so thank you for putting that out there. So this is my say that you are not root of the professor in the class will not hurt you, looking at womens history will only improve your life. And what is it like for those on the other side . Those of us that have to deal with a whole range of our work by people who are fearful. Host would teach . What you teach . Guest i teach at George Washington university in georgetown. Everything required for the minor and the mainer. Introductory and womens history.
Theres no end to the violence against women. We have not stopped shaming girls about their body. We have so much sex women in the media. Which implies you have to have a certain shape to be loved or popular. The problem in term of refining feminism is it is true what unifies a lot of women globally is what done to women. I dont want to identify feminism about victim hollywood. Thats a important critique. Empowered feminism says that women should be equal in their rights and opportunities period. Where we dont see that we want to push forward to make that possible. End of statement. But, no, there is so many work to do. And globally the statistics are frightening in term of womens lack of access, again, to everything from education to health and information about their options. Host do you think that sexism plays any role in Hillary Clintons president ial chance . Guest absolutely. I use the misrepresentation in my classroom. One of my students is in it. The film looks at media bias in