In America, We Have Long Stood By

I Firmly Believe That If You Help A Woman, Then You Educate A Child, You Help The Family. Because Women Are Very Focused On Health Care And Education And On The Family. So If You Help A Woman, You Help The Family, You Help The Village, You Help The Country. And So Empowering Women Is A Very Important Part Of Moving, Not Just Women Forward, But The Economy Of The Nation Forward. Particularly In Very Substandard Nations.

I Would Say That The Race Of Hillary Clinton Was Very Important To This Country, Because It Showed That A Woman Could Win The State, That A Woman Could Raise Money. I Think That Every Woman Is Sitting A Little Taller, Not Only In Our Own Country, But I Think Women Around The World Watch What's Happening In The United States.

One Of My Mentors Was Patricia Schroeder, And One Night She Came To Me On The Floor And She Said To Me, "why Are We Sitting In Congress, When A Lot Of Women Would Try To Do It And Couldn't? Why Are We Here And Others Aren't?" And I Thought Back And Said It Was Because My Father Believed In Me And She Said The Same Thing, She Said Her Father Believed In Her And Thought She Could Do Anything.

I Asked, "what Do You Think The Most Important Advancement Was For Women In Recent Years?" And The Majority, The Item That Polled The Most, Was Hillary Clinton's Run For President. Can You Believe That? Women Saw That As A Breakthrough In Something Very, Very Important. She Didn't Win. And I Think Another Thing That Her Race Did Was It Showed Sexism In Our Society.

Usually Women Are The Lynchpins Of The Family. They Carry The Brunt Of The Work At Home And Of Being Mothers And Of Taking Care Of The Children. Not Always. I Have A Wonderful Husband, Who Is A Great Father And Has Helped Tremendously At Home. And I Think That Men Are Getting In Touch And I Think That The Role That They Have Is So Important, To Be A Good Father And Have A Good Career And Be A Good Husband. But I Think That As More And More Women Go Into The Workforce, You Have To Have More Help At Home And It Becomes More Of A Sharing Of Responsibilities.