three quarters of his active volunteers are women and 40% of those women hadn t done anything political before donald trump was elected. the women in the streets from the women s march it seems are now in streets across america knocking on doors and helping get people to the polls. here with me now, rebecca traister, author of the fantastic book, good and mad, the revolutionary power of women s anger. this is something you ve been reporting on and seeing, witnessing firsthand as you ve been out on the road. not just the candidates, but the women volunteers, the people knocking on doors. it is astonishing how powerful that force is, particularly in democratic politics. i think you are looking at so many of these women who, as you said, had perhaps been somnambulant, maybe they were regular democratic voters, a segment of them had been shocked into activism. again and again, i ve been going around the country meeting women who describe their every night, every weekend, every spare hour
want to make sure you relax it more at home. a new study finding when people are stressed the hormone cortisol makes your brain crave foods that make you gain weight. you re more likely to grab a cookie. we have private practice md to explain the science. what is it in our bodies that makes us lose our will power? that s what s interesting. we ve known that chronic stress makes us pack on the pounds and add inches to our waistlines. this study shows how. they took 51 men volunteers what they did is divided them into two groups. one that was exposed to stress and the other one not exposed to stress. they showed them images of objects such as cookies and
mental and physical requirements but not getting the assignment simply because they re women. who your organization had to sue the department of defense to repeal to end the combat exclusion policy denying women access to some of these assignments and schools. what happened was, the service branches have been ordered by the secretary of defense to further integrate women. but they re stalling. the service branches are simply not further integrating women. what we re seeing is while the marine corps opened up this school and the officer counterpart to women volunteers, they re simply volunteers. they re not going to get the assignment in if they ve proven they can be events thatmen. do whom to do they have to appeal? does it go to secretary haigle? we re still working our lawsuit through the system. we ve got four service women who served on the battlefields of iraq and afghanistan who want to try for some of the schools that haven t been opened to women volunteers, like ranger scho
those 238,000 positions you are talking about, if the exclusion policy were to go away probably, 238,000 women volunteers would not volunteer for those positions but there would be many that did and do want to try for the roles and joined specifically to serve their country in combat. they are being denied that opportunity. one of the truth about this sort of long set of wars we have been in, this is a different 1%. very few americans are handling all of the bearing all the costs of the war for the 99% who know and experience very little of military life. many of my viewers may not understand that when you don t have the ability to go into combat officially, there are certain professional aspects that you are shut out of. walk us through that a little bit. what is the professional track, the part of being a soldier or being a marine that you are shut out of if you can t officially be in combat? absolutely. there are a couple different areas. first of all, it is sort of the