In this extended web interview, Rebecca Traister and Melissa Harris-Perry join Alison discuss whether the record numbers of women running for Congress equal progress on women’s issues.
In this extended web interview, Alison Stewart speaks with Anneke van Woudenberg of Human Rights Watch about the roots of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the use of rape as a weapon against communities there.
The idea of reconciling with the Taliban has been of particular concern to women, who fear that their hard-won rights could be negotiated away.
According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, women who work full time earn about 77 cents for every dollar that men earn annually, despite the fact that women tend to be more educated than working men. And the numbers are even more discouraging for women of color: African-American women earn 61 cents, and Latinas [...]
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