Women yielding political power. Im with cspan, American History on tv on cspan 3 every weekend is happy to coordinate with the organization of american historians to moderate this panel discussion. And of course it could not come at a better moment in history with the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote passed by the house u. S. And u. S. Senate in 1919 and then ratified in 1920. Here we are a hundred years later, the 116th congress has the highest percentage of women ever making up a roughly quarter of each chamber. And we have a female speakr for the second time, and we have four women so far running for president. Todays panel will look at women, the role of women and the key turning points of women in american politics. I want to introduce each of our panelists and come back through and have each of them talk about their books or the period of time theyre writing about for about five minutes and then well open up the conversation to all of you. So let me introduce you t
Evening. Ernoon, good this is bloomberg surveillance. Im francine here in london. Of course, its monday. To everyone out there. A lot of the focus is on what we heard from President Trump yesterday. Ideal way to actually reopen an economy is well. Uarding lives as well look at italy as today is the first what they call phase two. Actually day that its starting to slowly reopen. His is what your markets are doing. The focus is not just on european stocks, but on you can see european stocks down some 2 . Crude oil. Because of the rolling of the contracts and what we saw just a to le of weeks ago need spend a bit of time in terms of oil and what they see. President trump also blasting china. We troo i and figure out what that means for trade. Ell be speaking to our Brenda Murray very shortly. Now lets get straight to new york city. Bloomberg first reviews is we begin with the daily falling from the u. K. To italy. Hats as leaders across europe grapple with how to ease lockdown restriction
Host good evening and welcome to the rare book room. My name is nancy and i am the owner of the store. This strand was founded in 1927 by my grandfather benjamin and then on to my father fred and then on to me. For a little bit of history in the late 18 hundreds, syria around this bookstore here in greenwich village, was the epicenter of publishers and booksellers. Divine press, and they all had editorial offices and down below, they had theks bookstores to display their books rated along Fourth Avenue just around on that side, was known as book row. And spike of the work 48 used bookstores of which strand is the sole survivor. As the owner of the strand, 18 miles of books, i am not easily faced by 1000 books. But the bucket list, and tonights featured book taught me in my tracks. [applause]. s expansive scope is coupled with a delightful wit and a perfect eye for supplies of detail never again will you have to wonder what to read next. It is a one stop shop holiday gift for anybody wh
I dont consider myself a journalist and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . One of my friends invested in uber a number of years ago. It was at a 3 billion market value. I said he was going to lose all of his money, no ridehailing company can be worth 3 billion. In fact, it turned out to be worth staggering sums of money and now it is publicly trading. I had the same reaction when i heard of didi, an uberlike company in china. I did not think it would catch on but i was wrong again. Today it is the single largest ridehailing company in the world. The person running the company is a young woman from china who rose up because of her hard work and intellect and now she is the president of didi. It is an incredible success story. She is one of the best known Women Business leaders in china, an ext
What that says is that even though we locally are doing everything that we can to provide resources to the public, we know that theres so much more that needs to be done. We cant wait for a federal stimulus check in many cases, people who are living paycheck to paycheck and need money to pay their bills. And we know, especially our hairdressers and our nail salons, our barbershops, theyre probably suffering the most. Because if they dont work they dont have any income. So this is a very challenging time for all of us. And as we deal with the protecting of Public Health, we need to always protect the Financial Health of our families and communities. After were able to reopen what is that going to look like . And how will we be able to continue to make sure that everyone has a decent paying job with benefits . Thats the foundation of our city and its necessary for us to figure out ways in which we can help to support one another and uplift one another. Just a few things that we have been