Campaign training and we facilitate research and discussions like this on women in politics. So tonight we want to take a look back all the way back 100 years to the arrow right after the ratification and passage of the 19th amendment because understandably the fight for womens equality did not stop with the success of the suffrage movement. There was more to do and thats but our discussion will center on this evening with dr. Rebecca wolfe who has just the wolf. Sorry. Okay was written a amazingly book. Its entitled gendered citizenship the original conflict over the equal rights amendment 1920 to 1963 and dr. Wolfe de wolf is a historian who arent her phd right here at American University and we are proud that she is also a wpi Course Instructor this semester teaching a class on this very subject and im sure we have a few of her students joining us this evening. I want to let everybody know before we start that were going to say plenty of time for your questions at the bottom of the
Welcome to our virtual series women on wednesdays. We are glad that you could join us. Those of you who are new to our events, wpa as a non profit and nonpartisan institute in the au school of Public Affairs that aims to close the gender gap in political leadership. We offer academic and practical campaign training, and we facilitate research and discussions like this on women in politics. So tonight, we want to take a look back 100 years to the era right after the ratification and passage of the 19th amendment. Because, understandably, the fight for womens equality did not stop with the success of the suffrage movement. There was more to do and that is what, our discussion will center on this evening with dr. Rebecca wolf. Who has written an amazing new book. It is entitled gendered citizen ship, the original conflict over the equal rights rights amendment. 1920 to 1963. And, dr. Dewolf is a historian who wrote her ph. D. Right here in american university. And we are proud that she is
Where a federal judge rolls out the first fine against a commercial drone operator. Peter cook follows was on capitol hill and at the white house on sanctions against russia. And the latest on the crisis. Good evening. Good evening. Even as Russian Forces stand their ground and crimea, there is a sense that the next front in this conflict may not involve troops at all. Zprom has just suggested it could cut off ukraines gas supplies if ukraine failed to pay its debt for february and clearance to billion dollar debt to the company. The ceo said he saw a danger of a repeat of the situation we had m did justen gazpro that. Caused supplies in disruption in western europe and prompting western governments to accuse russia of using gas as a weapon. It could be different this time, perhaps not that powerful weapon. It is getting warmer here and is an to lng there abundance of gas in western europe that theoretically could be cindy still though that would be a first. Iople seem to be adjusting,
How do you think hes going to answer the benghazi question . I dont know. There are people writing timelines, there are people parsing through the intelligence. I also want to see how much romney turns a Foreign Policy debate into an Economic Policy debate. I think one of the issues may be romney distinguishing himself from president obama. Actually, we a grgree on this policy. Heres the final debate of the 2012 president ial campaign. Heres bob schiefer of cbs news. Good evening from the campus of Lynn University here in boca raton, florida. This is the fourth and last debate of the 2012 campaign brought to you by the division of president ial debates. This one is on Foreign Policy. The questions are mine and i have not shared them with the candidates or their aides. The audience has taken a vow of silence. No applause, no reaction of any kind except right now when we welcome president barack obama and governor mitt romney. [ applause ] gentlemen, your campaigns have agreed to certain
On autobiography. The book examines the differences in writing styles between men and women in autobiographical works. This encore presentation is just under an hour. Cspan jill ker conway, author of when memory speaks reflections on autobiography, where did you get the idea for this . Guest well, i have been traveling around with my publicist from alfred knopf and giving readings from some of my earlier volumes and memoirs, and i started to explain to the audience before i read something about the genre, something about its history and where i thought my own work fitted in with it. And the audience would always get very interested and ask a lot of questions, and finally, my editor said one day, well, why dont you do a book about this . so i thought it was a wonderful idea and ii had to do a great deal of reading of 19th century memoirs that i hadnt read before in order to do the book, but i had great fun doing it. Cspan i have a copy of something youll. Guest mm. Cspan . Youll recogni