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
Zero my gosh. I am so excited to be here. She cant outdo me in excitement. This is a woman. It was super good. Im foremost an activist im a rape survivor and im just so thrilled to be here. Im not here today without you. I did not expect that. A little housekeeping thing. Im so glad to welcome you all to the book club. For this evenings perp performance. For those of you who are using cart please turn off the sound on your mobile device and for all others please turn off all electronic devices. The first time i saw you in person. It was at the 2,017th i remember feeling scared. Afterwards there is a hush silence of all. At that moment i didnt feel nervous anymore. I just wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart is so hard to be what you cant see and you showed us what it was like to be fighting for decades in the arena and because of you we all arent nervous anymore. Thank you. Thank you so much. I have to say i still get nervous. I do think we get strength from each other.
Author and Journalist Bob Woodward at an event hosted by politics and prose at the synagogue. This is one hour and a half. [cheering and applause] good evening. [inaudible] on behalf of everybody and those folks here welcome and thank you very much for coming. We had tnt always enjoy joining forces with six and i for author events and the synagogue and Cultural Center is now 15 years old and founder and staff deserve credit. [applause] they deserve a lot of credit for transforming the space into the vibrant Community Institution it is today. We are delighted to be hosting jodi and megan. [applause] they are two New York Times reporters who reported on Harvey Weinsteins extensive sexual abuse in their book is the riveting revealing account of how they developed their blockbuster story and its consequences in spurring the Metoo Movement. As a note in their preface in the wake of the weinstein expoee which broke in october 2017 it wasnt if it was is a dam wall had come down. Many women no
And we are now 15yearsold and the founders and staff deserve a lot of credit. [applause] into the vibrant Community Institution that it is today we are delighted to be hosting. [applause] they reveal that the abuse and the book she said as the riveting account of how they developed their blockbuster story and its consequences in the movement. As they note in their process that broke in october of 2017 it was as if a wall had come down. Many women not just in this country but around the world stepped forward to tell their own stories about mistreatment. In addition to the impact of the reporting, the way they went about confirming the stories that others before them have tried, provides a terrific case study of what goes into the first investigative journalism. People often think such just fall into the laps of reporters when in reality what is involved in is a lot of painstaking reporting running into dead ends, coaxing details out of reluctant sources, spanning out documents, substant
In the category of recovered numbers with no memory to develop that therapy its not clear that shes claiming that but she doesnt tell anybody until therapy but this is what was brought up on one side they use that as evidence and as a lawyer that the court could examine them they wanted to use that as corroboration of the statement but refused to produce them and that is very significant how that therapy went because there are no therapeutic techniques to suppress memories or manipulate the content of those memories so you could attach the wrong person to a traumatic event it can happen through therapy or regular discussions it has been known to happen through police terry interrogation. We have to be very careful and we dont know enough facts about it because the other surrounding information wasnt given. This is why with Rachel Mitchell working with this situation felt she had to go back and do what has never been done where you try just to get the facts and that wasnt done in this s