The person who founded bryn mawr. It came to me in the synapse just now. Host and you know what . That was my next thing because i wrote it down. They gave me the right they gave me that information. Guest i remembered it. Host pardon me. Arvin tweets in to you, professor morris please ask professor morris to narrate her story about asking president clinton to watch the Womens Basketball game. Guest well, i know, i filmed an interview about that earlier, but sure. Okay. So already a womens sports fan and basketball fan when i first began teaching at gw in 1994, i went to a doubleheader, and this was when they would have one ticket got you the mens game and the womens game, a long afternoon. So i was going to see two games, but i was surprised to have to go through a metal detector which had never happened at gw s. And somebody said the president s here. President clinton had brought chelsea to the game. He was very accessible. You could go right up and shake his hand. He went into the
Booktv interi viewed Hoover Institution fellow kori schake about her book, state of disrepair, which takes a critical look at the performance of the state department. Its next on booktv. Host on your screen is author kori schake, the book is called state of repair fixing the culture and practices of the state department. Kori schake, you write that the department of state employee roster consists of roughly 7800 Foreign Service officers,11,000 Civil Servants and 42,000 foreign nationals. In 09, 16,000 applicants took the written test to join the Foreign Service competing for roughly 1,000 jobs. The people selected have college degrees, 11 years of prior Work Experience before coming into the Foreign Service. Twothirds of people selected for the Foreign Service come in with postgraduate degrees, 80 have lived overseas. Foreign Service Officers are awarded tenure after four years. 95 percent of the serving officers receive ten your. 25 of all our diplomats are concentrated in only 30 cou
Author Bonnie Morris, in your book revenge of revenge of the womens study, revenge for what . Guest the final tight is not meant to be provocative or rude. Its about having the opportunity to talk back to many people who steer type my field, or ask really unfair students. I have a bunch of terrific students intimidated by taking a basic class in womens history. They come to me and express doubt or concern. Theyre afraid what people will say. What will it look like on their transcript. So those experiences lead me to a really keen awareness of how many people feel there is something wrong with looking at half the worlds history. Ive negotiated many of these rude conversations throughout my teaching career. The idea of revenge was i wanted to talk back but in a cheerful way. A cheerful playful way. I wanted to be the smiling face of womens studies and women history. Show that as a diplomat from academic feminism, im not scary, im approachable, i love my students, but enough with being ru
Been used against everybody in this world walking this earth but when it comes to my children i would lay down my life for them. My question is why culturally do we have people abusing women in the eastern bloc of europe. Is a cultural thing. In the South Pacific women should be held in higher regard. My mother was held in high regard. I dont understand how all cultures have formulated their idea of keeping women down so address that. Host do you consider yourself a feminist . Caller no. I am man who believes in equal rights for everybody. That is not feminism, that is humanism. Guest the answer is elizabeth blackwell. She was admitted to Geneva Medical College as a joke. Host as a joke . Guest yes. Was applied and was put to a vote by the male student body and they thought was sophia hilarious and that she will surely fail and they were amazed when she showed up and completed the course and study. Okay. Why is there violence against women . It is local as well as global, it is not lim
Live saturday night your president obama and jill mcgill of nbcs community headlined event before an audience of celebrities, journalists and the White House Press corps. Live saturday night on cspan. Now live to london for british Prime Ministers question time. Each week the house of commons is in session we bring to Prime Minister David Cameron taking questions from members of the house of commons live wednesday mornings here on cspan2. We invite your participation via twitter using hashtag pmq. Prior to question the members are finishing up other business. Now live to the floor of the british house of commons. In this country they do need easier access to capital. This country leads the world in developing social investment and today we are launching two new funds that will have more impact. We expect better results for thousands of young people at risk of becoming meet. Questions to the Prime Minister. Number one, mr. Speaker. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, im sure the whole