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The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.

You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.

Women are still second-class citizens.

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.

Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.

We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.