general motors. she joins 20 other women at the top of a fortune 500 company. cnn digital correspondent kelly wallace joins me now. reporter: it s a new report by the nonprofit group that doesn t have a lot of good news when it comes to women. it found for the eighth consecutive year, no significant movement when it comes to the number of women serving on corporate boards. this year, 16.9% of the boards seats held by women versus 16.6% last year. not a significant uptick. same story when you look at the number of woman serving as executive officers. four years, no real change. this year, 14.6% of women in the executive officers. last year, 14.3%. and when i look at these stories, the big question is
it s a lot bigger than that. women versus men and liberals versus conservatives. they have been vocal and surprisingly so on monday. the editorial board endorsed yellin and slammed summers in the writing. yellin is reminiscing with summers and supporter it is. they support a letter to the white house in support of janet yellin suspected by the most liberal members. dick durbin and dianne feinstein and king reminded the president that whoever gets voted in, they may have confirmation and there may be at least 20 democrat who is don t vote for her. the central bank sests to
dinner question might be the most important one because it means they re in agreement on a lot of things in this case already and they re making substantial progress. every head to my right is nodding here and faith jenkins, you know, we spoke about listen, we don t want to profile anyone here but it has been said that these women would get it done. that these women would possibly be more organized than a group of men might be. six organized women versus 12 angry men. faith? and they worked through lunch as well. right. with an all female jury so obviously a highly intelligent jury. we know this. and i agree with my colleagues paul and sunny here. when they re ordering dinner, it probably means they re closer to the end now than they were at the beginning because they want to continue working. they have been sequestered from the beginning of this process. and they re obviously taking it seriously going through the statute and if the judge brought them out and just read the
their reputations. ? we dpin with a major retreat into what s turning into a surprise issue on this year s presidential campaign. the politics of women s health. in a ferocious backlash one of the nation s biggest players in the fight against breast can ter announced it will not cut off money tomanned parenthood. cnn s lisa sylvester has more on today s about face. reporter: the susan g. komen board of directors and ceo began with saying sorry. we want to apologize to the american public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving lives. we have been distressed at the presumption that the the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize planned parenthood. they were not. the komen foundation, best known for its pink ribbons and 5-k walks, was under fire for changes to its grant policies that cut $600,000 in funding for plan parenthood. komen originally said it was because planned pare
there is nothing left, i mean my goodness. that is way i guess ate louz him to sleep at night. but it certainly seems like a less than clear cut explanation for why people cheat on each other. but the other thing is the way he handled michelle bachmann. truly bob and susan, bachmann went after him over and over and over again. but was his tone dismidisive? i m talking to it was the moment of, you know, women versus men in this debate. women all over the country heard that dismissive. somebody says something about you in a debate, you fight back. you say you re wrong. you got your facts wrong. it was the way he did it. he wouldn t even make eye contact with her. and i heard dismissive before. and that is exactly what he did. he dismissed her out of hand. and good for her. that was a stunning part in the