corps. he called on four reporters, they were all women reporters. and while that was neat on that international trip, it also was apparently just kind of a coincidence. today it was on purpose. >> josh has given me the who has been naughty and who has been nice list. and i'm going to use it to take some questions. we're going to start with carry brown from politico. >> april, go ahead. >> president obama's year ending press conference lasted about 50 minutes. he took eight questions, all of them were from female reporters. and it was on purpose. the press secretary released this statement, the fact is there are many women from a variety of news organization who is day in and day out do the hard work of covering the president of the united states. we realized we had a unique opportunity to highlight that fact.