take action on supplemental national security legislation that finally meet those challenges head on. that was minority leader mitch mcconnell publicly supporting the senate bipartisan border deal yesterday, but just hours later the republican leader would change his message in a private meeting of his senate colleagues and the fate of the bill now very much in doubt. meanwhile, the gop led house is moving forward with its efforts to impeach the homeland security secretary. we ll go through the partisan politics playing out on capitol hill. plus, donald trump is dismissing nikki haley and issuing a challenge straight to president joe biden. we ll explain that just ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, february 6th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day us. and we begin this morning on capitol hill. and in a striking turn of events senate republicans now appear poised to block the bipartisan border bill they themselves asked for an
Chance to make that the center of your research, and we cover just about everything. Its just like any other class where you take exams and write papers. Host what do you do with a womens study major . The short answer is law school. Many of my best students gone on to be title ix lawyers. Many go abroad. They work with women Birth Control the issue of violence against women in regions ranging from Northern Africa to bosnia. Many students do development in term of nonprofit. They do programming for everything from planted parenthood to organizations that work with women and girls. I have a couple of students who have gone on to med school and do specialties in womens health. Quite a few have been nursing, and i have a lot of students who are also as athletes involved in furthering women sports. Some are trainers. I have one in the olympics right now. I have another student interning at the winter games who is hoping to do some reporting on the situation of homophobia in russia. Host ko
Wrong with looking at half the worlds history. And i have negotiated many of these things throughout my teaching career. The idea is that i wanted to talk back but in a cheerful way. A cheerful and playful way. And i wanted to be the smiling face of womens studies and womens history so that as a diplomat from academic feminism i am approachable and i love my students, but enough with being rude to the professor. People would come by and say that i love your class. You not at all this way. And so thank you for putting that out there. So this is my say that you are not root of the professor in the class will not hurt you, looking at womens history will only improve your life. And what is it like for those on the other side . Those of us that have to deal with a whole range of our work by people who are fearful. Host would teach . What you teach . Guest i teach at George Washington university in georgetown. Everything required for the minor and the mainer. Introductory and womens history.
I teach pretty much everything required for the miner and major, introductory womens history, specialized class on womens sport. Over enrolled since 1996 i teach a survey course in womens history which has about 120 firstyear students. Right now i have athletes from every sport. I have a lot of people in their first year, and i have graduating askers seniors who have waited all the different years with a different major just to take a womens study class before they graduate. Host what is womens studies . Guest womens studies has been a department or program at american colleges since 1969. The first womens Study Program was at San Diego State in 1969. Its an opportunity to look at pretty much all the humanities from the perspective of how womens lives have been shaped. Thats material that is often neglected. Many people can go from cinder garten through law school and never learn about a womens contribution and be considered an educate person. So if you want to put women at the center,
Theres no end to the violence against women. We have not stopped shaming girls about their body. We have so much sex women in the media. Which implies you have to have a certain shape to be loved or popular. The problem in term of refining feminism is it is true what unifies a lot of women globally is what done to women. I dont want to identify feminism about victim hollywood. Thats a important critique. Empowered feminism says that women should be equal in their rights and opportunities period. Where we dont see that we want to push forward to make that possible. End of statement. But, no, there is so many work to do. And globally the statistics are frightening in term of womens lack of access, again, to everything from education to health and information about their options. Host do you think that sexism plays any role in Hillary Clintons president ial chance . Guest absolutely. I use the misrepresentation in my classroom. One of my students is in it. The film looks at media bias in