To hear from women about how your opportunities today compared to the opportunities your mother had when she was growing up. What challenges to mothers and women still face in those areas he echo in those areas . If you are in the eastern or central time zone email us at journal cspan. Org. A very good mothers day to you. Opportunities compared to those of your mother . It was a subject taken up in a series of essays today. The headline of those essays in this piece in the Washington Post one other piece in that is by the d. C. Police chief here in washington dc. She writes just two of the pieces you can find in todays Washington Post. We are opening up the question to our viewers, how do your opportunities compared to that of your mother . We are talking to female viewers only read our phone lines are open. Before we get to your calls, a few stats from the pew research. Enter a report came out last week and noted there were fewer of todays moms that are married. 69 . Ed moms account for 15 are divorced, separated, or widowed. 15 never married. Back in the 1960s only two percent of moms in the 1960s 92 of moms were married. It also has stats on how many kids mothers had back in the 60s versus today. American mothers are expected to have on average one point nine children compared to 3. 7 children in 1960. The average for hispanic mothers is 2. 2 children over the course of their lifetime impaired to one point not for nonhispanic 1. 8 four asiannd and Nonhispanic White mothers. In 1965 mother spent about 10 hours per week in childcare efforts. Week were spent on housework and eight hours per week doing paid work. In 2011 those numbers were 14 hours per week in childcare, 18 hours per week in housework, and 21 hours per week in paid work. Just some of the changes over time. We are asking how your opportunities compared to those of your mother. Our phone lines are open. We will start with marissa calling in from montana this morning. Good morning. Good morning cspan. Im so grateful for cspan. I love book tv. If you could possibly expanded during the weeknights i would appreciate it. My comment is there are so many opportunities for women and i am so grateful for cspan. Could you possibly start showcasing women outside of the beltway that are working for Animal Rights issues . Pitas working to root Animal Rights. There are lots of women doing to there are aen lot of women doing stuff. To our question how your opportunities today compared to those of your mother, any thoughts on that . Amazing,y mother was she got two or three degrees. We american women are so spoiled rotten. The women outside of america need our help and support. If we just reach out to our sisters across the way those 300 girls they are trying to rescue. Thank you for your hard work. I am so grateful. Host thank you for the call this morning. We want to hear from female viewers. We are asking how your opportunities compared to those of your mother. Phone lines by region, eastern and central time zones mountain and pacific time zones the conversation also happening on our twitter page and Facebook Page. Facebook. Com cspan. A few comments from our Facebook Page this morning one other comment from our Facebook Page this morning you can join in on that conversation on facebook. A few more stats from the Pew Research Poll am comparing. Others over the decades mothers and the labor force accounted for 47 of children of women with children younger than 18 creative in 2012 it was 71 with women with children younger than 18. Hear your comments this morning on this subject. Waiting into linda fayetteville, georgia. Good morning. Caller good morning. Opportunitiesore i have a lot more opportunities then my mom had. I was able to go to college. I just think the young girls today the sky is the limit. If they make sure they get a good education they can do anything they want to do. Shewas not able to always wanted to be a nurse but she was not able to go to school but i was able to go to college. I think opportunities are tremendous for young girls today. Thank you for the call. Loretta is waiting as well in columbus, ohio. Good morning. Caller hello. When it comes down to the opportunity of the women that are faced with the obstacle of theirhey go through color, race, nationality, that takes a lot of time. Sometimes that takes out the rtunity we have to look forward to the we have to follow when it comes to our skills and also the determination of making sure that we get there. It has a lot to do with the background, it is coursese same obstacle but in a different manner. Tell us about your mothers experience. You bring up educational obstacles. The chief face educational obstacles he echo caller obstacles did she face educational obstacles . Caller she did not have the same opportunities i did. When you go into the lifestyle where you try to take on the light struggles of everyday opportunities in your community, to live on, and that a single er all the time that takes circumstances. I want to thank you for having the opportunity to talk. We are asking our viewers how your opportunities compared to that of your mothers. We are talking to female viewers on the washington journal. Several stories on this topic around the country. Here is the pittsburgh postgazette here co. Postgazette. The headline owens,uote from jennifer talking about some of the resistance out there for women in the workplace. We go to pat in minnesota. Thank you for calling. Caller thank you for presenting this opportunity to talk about it. I am in my later 70s. My working career began before 1976. Im thinking about my mother. My mothers only opportunity after she was married was during world war ii. The woman went to work in this country. War the mothers were expected to go back home. 50s and in the early had my children. I was a single mother at the time. A joblooking at losing because one of my children had to have surgery and i couldnt get anybody to take care of him. I lost a job. Now i think about all the things they wouldnt hire married women during the korean war. My husband was in korea. Thomasdnt get a job relied about our marital status. So much difference. ,t took two acts of congress both the sexist discrimination and the age discrimination. Job. 42 before i got a i was working in a Processing Plant here up in minnesota. The i am thinking is difference is i look at my , she drives anow truck for the Highway Department for minnesota. She has four children. Seeas been interesting to how these generations have progress to read have progress. They are trying to take a lot of rights away from us. Host before you go, talk about what you mean and theyre trying to take our rights away from us. We talking about women specifically . Caller yes i am. I didnt hear that because i have my i am muted. Who is trying to take rights away from women these days he echo these days . I feel there are a lot of local governments or state governments that are trying to change the laws to take away a lot of the rights that we fought you hard for. Host you talked about your mother working during world war ii. Did she want to go back to work after she had gone for a few years during the war . Caller actually she did go back to work them. But she went back as a temporary. She never had a regular job. She was an accountant so she could always find work. Host thank you for calling in for minnesota this morning. We are talking to our female viewers about how your opportunities compared to those of your mother. Our phone lines are split up regionally in the eastern and central and mountain and pacific time zones. You will keep the lines open for the next half hour or so to talk to our female viewers about the subject. One other bit of recent polling data, this from the market out ofh firm it so maury asks it if you want to know the numbers specifically on people who , it wasd to the data. Ust 29 in the United States this graph breaking it down. The United States ahead of france, spain, and belgium on that list. How are your opportunities . Caller hello there. Now. 88 years old when i was a mother it was a fulltime job to take care of the kids, to cook, to clean. When the kids came home. I was a very liberated woman. My friends and i would get together every other day or so and play mahjongg and rink line. How do you like that he echo like that . Talk about the challenges the next generation faces. Caller i blame what is going on with the lynnwood what is the womens liberation. They asked me what i do. I think women are forced to go to work and now they cant handle it. You cannot do it all. Dont believe in daycare. I believe in taking care of your children. Host thank you for calling in. A tweet we will be talking about the subject with our viewers this morning. Several members of congress day holidayothers here in the United States. Here is nancy pelosi on friday offering her mothers day wish for women. [video clip] when women succeed americans succeed. Want equal pay for equal work, raising the minimum wage, paid sick feeling paid sick leave us, affordable quality childcare. We certainly want flowers and. Oses and mom not having to do the dishes. We also want to unleash the power of women. They want to be entrepreneurial and start their own business and create jobs. They want to be able to do so in a way that has a proper balance between family and work. One other story from the pittsburgh postgazette on those that Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi brought up on friday. Women pitching issues to lawmakers. One of the front page stories there. We are talking about how your opportunities compared to those of your mother. Mary is in illinois this morning. Thank you for calling in. Caller i have mixed feelings. Husband did not make enough money and i had to go to work. Until my children got older enough to take care of themselves. I had a kind lady that always took them to school for me because she didnt work. I believe that unless it is absolutely necessary a mother should stay home with their children until their children are old enough to take care of themselves and then go to work. These children need their mother when they leave, they need them and i knowome home, that in this day and age now a lot of mothers have to work. Work to pay the bills. Heart for these little kids that are drugged out in the cold in the winter. I wish all mothers could stay home and take care of their children until they are old enough to get themselves ready. That is just how i feel about it. We played you a piece from house Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Here is a Video Tribute to that speaker video treatment that speaker House Speaker of the house john boehner put up this week. [video clip] i had 11 brothers and sisters. It wasnt easy for my mother. Never a dull moment. With all that pressure that she had, she stayed awful cool. Thing i can close my eyes and vividly see were diapers. There were always diapers. The basement was full of diapers. If my mother got angry at us over something she wasnt at all about taking the spark plug wires out of the spark plug. Devious. Host the New York Times has a piece on the women of city hall, noting that women hold half of the highest ranking in city hall and new york. It notes that the longtime fraternity of government empowering helping him build the agenda. There is a picture of the women of city hall as noted by todays New York Times. Thats go to deborah waiting in buffalo, new york. My great great grandmother worked. She used to break the bread with the break the bread on the island she came from. My greatgrandmother immigrated to the United States and she worked when she came here. Her daughter worked to create a my mother worked through high school to help support her family and then she enlisted in one my father died and my mother got Social Security she got a degree in teaching she didnt work because she had three children to look after. Women have always worked. Especially black women. I know women now who have to work because they have to feed their children. Women have always worked. Things are better for women. The point is can you take advantage of them . Thats all i have to say. Host are you a mother . Caller i never had children. Host what you see are the opportunities for the next generation . I think women will advance and women will do better. That. S like host, on our twitter page we want to keep you updated on some of the stories from around the country. Here is from the hill newspaper coming up yesterday. We will talk about that and our 8 00 hour into our 9 00 hour. Some of those controversial referendums taking place in Eastern Ukraine today. We will also talk about that with thetodays show moscow correspondent of the New York Times to get an update on how that effort is going. One story that is already making headlinesning this morning ed donovan confirmed that parlor agents were pulled off of their white house today to check on the safety of the directors assistance in 2011. The spokesman disputed accounts that moment operations lasted for months that new story on the secret Service Coming out in todays Washington Post. You how your opportunities compared to your mother. Lets go to kathy waiting in New Hampshire. Go ahead. Caller my opportunities have been incredibly more than what my mother had. Was point to an immigrant family back in depression times. Pushed that i get an education that she was not able to get herself. I was able to get a professional degree and i have raised two children. The big difference is she really encouraged education and i have those opportunities. There were a lot of schools toes of attend and financial aid. I think they were unimaginable for my mom back when she was younger. Host we will go to kathleen in North Carolina. I am kind of like the woman that came before me. My grandmothers mother was a 1900s. Back in the early my mother was a secretary. They all had children. We did not have all the things they had to help us. My mom was ringing her closed through a ringer her clothes through a ringer. They worked long hours but they made it. Even have the cushions we have now in society. They lost their job or got sick the rest of the family had to pitch in and loan them the money or help us get through. Host how do you feel about that cushion . Is it too big . Caller i dont think it should be bigger. When you have a big cushion like that it is easier to fall. Cushionif you have less you have to pick yourself up by your bootstraps and keep going. From our twitter page you can follow the conversation at cspan wj. Lets go to tina in millwall key, wisconsin. Thank you for calling in. So excited, this is the first time i have gotten on cspan. I grew up in the jim crow south. My mother was phenomenal. She had four children. My mother was able to work hard. She educated two of us, two of us were college graduates. I am really excited about the opportunity to express my feelings about my mother, who is passed away. You getu said she hoped an education, what was her education level . Caller my mother was in eighth grade graduate. She spent a lot of time working with us. Post comment you think we overcame most of those obstacles at this point . I know because i had such a strong mother dedicated to educating her children, i was able to have a great experience. I was able to travel abroad. Do a lot of things i have not been able to do had it not been for my mother and her dedication to my dedication to her children. Should be much more encouragement and support from others. Host do you mean on a federal level . Proponent ofa big Early Childhood education. I think the federal government should do more to educate younger children. There are a lot of single woman that needs support in the children in particular need to be educated. I am a big component of that. Educate them while they are young. Host we have time for a few more calls. Ofant to update you on some the highlights coming up on todays sunday shows. Congressman trey gowdy of South Carolina was picked to lead that smitty on benghazi this week. Mike rogers, congressman mike rogers, the chairman of the select Intelligence Committee will be appearing on abcs this week. Chuck hagel will be appearing along with marco rubio. On todays meet on todays newsmakers we welcome congressman Harold Rogers from kentucky. Here is a bit of a clip of that , talking about whether earmarks may return to spending bills. [video clip] now a ban on your marks on the house side. As long as that ban is there i will enforce it on our committee. However there is a lot of merit to the idea that members of Congress Know their districts better than a bureaucrat in the white house and that we ought to have the u. S. Congress with the power of the that areedy problems not being taken care of by the regular process. Read simplyly redirects money that bureaucrats would have spent with no increase in money. It makes no sense . Makes no sense. I think it should have to originate only in the subcommittees and not in her drop along the way. Tobe it should be limited money directed to units of local government or state government. Host Harold Rogers appearing on our Newsmakers Program today after washington journal here come journal. You can also find it at cspan. Org. Callse some time to take from our female viewers. We are asking how your opportunities compared to those of your mother. E go to washington good morning. Caller hello. I just wanted to say that i for femaleseasier today. Growing up i barely saw my mom. My mom worked three different jobs. Females have we as imhe opportunity to sorry, we take the opportunities we are given for granted. I am in the military. Benefits. Otted we get the opportunities to go. I think a lot of young females make excuses. There was no time for excuses growing up. There