The state Department Says theres concern the american supplies had been seized by fighters not backed by the u. S. Humanitarian aid to the countries continue. Nelson mandelas casquette was returned to a military hospital. In the morning his body will be transported to the union building. Thousands are expected to line up one more time to pay respects. Those are the headlines. Consider this with antonio mora is up next. See you back here is the 11 eastern, 8 pacific time and you can get the latest on aljazeera. Com. Is the Glass Ceiling beginning to shatter. Young women are leading the way. Less than 4 of fortune ceos are female. Gm put a woman in the drivers seat, so what are the obstacles in the way. Employers snoop on email and technology use. How far is too far when it comes to bosses tracking workers. It was a handshake seen around the world, what if anything does president obamas handshake with raul castro mean for u. S. Cuban relations. Are you interested in a oneway ticket to mars . Get in line. You wouldnt believe how many have lined up to spend the rest of their line on morse. Welcome to consider this. According to a wednesday poll women earn 0. 93 on the dollar compared to males. For all women the number is 84 . Theres room for women at the top of the corporate food chain. 22 women ceos running fortune 500 firms. The number did grow to 23 on tuesday when mary barra accepted the top job. Men and women of General Motors are dedicated. I believe we have the best team on the field. Its an honour for me to lead the team. So are the cracks in the Glass CeilingHolding Women back getting bigger. Im joined from the the Huffington Post studio by senior columnist lisa belkin. Great to have you with us. 23 female ceos in the fortune 500. This big breakthrough on tuesday with the 23rd, the first female executive to get a job at a big auto company. Does that suggest the Glass Ceiling is breaking . A few more cracks, one at a time. Thats how its done. I dont think well wake up and say, it is over, it is fixed. I think well see incremental little by little. As was said, i want to talk about the first woman, now we are talking about the 23rd, thats progress. Last year it was 18. We are seeing substantial increments. This is progress. You have to do this before you get to where you want to be. Its progress. But no one is really celebrating in the streets yet. You wrote about a poll for the the Huffington Post. As we mentioned the encouraging number. Younger women getting 93 of what the male counterparts are earning. Do you see the trend conditioning . The number is inching up. It was 0. 73 to the dollar. 0. 82 to the dollar, now the youngest workers are earning 0. 93, women, to every dollar earnt by the youngest men. Its the best its been in recorded history. That is progress. Its an important number and it is progress. On the other hand, you know, the study which was 82 pages long, a pugh study went in the great detail to have the millennial generation, that of 1832, sees their future. Have you to remember two things. Other generations of entrylevel workers have started well. And as they run into the realities of having children and a complex workplace they have stopped earning as as well compared to men. The second thing is Millennial Women dont see a welcoming workplace. They dont see roll models for how to do it or a clear path. We have to Pay Attention to that as much as we Pay Attention to the 93 or 100. You wrote theres a lot of obstacle clearing. People aged 18 to 32 agree three out of four, three out of five men saying more changes will be needed to close the Workplace Equality gap. What are the changes that needs to be made. When you look at the individual work places women say they get the same workplace opportunities and paid for doing the same job as the men . Biology, we have to account for biology. This is a system created around a male model, a male working full throttle from the 20s and 30s, and running the show in their 40s and 50s, passing it off in the 50s and 60s. Women dont have the biology. This was fine when men had it at home. What we expect of workers as opposed to the lives they want to leave. Thats what has to change. Men are getting involved in that conversation. They are the ones saying, me too. I need a different paradigm. Lets talk about the working parents and obstacles, especially working mothers, millennial men dont seem to get it. 60 of Millennial Women, though, and only 20 of millennial men think its harder for working parents to advanced. Are you surprised that the men are clueless. This, too, is an increase from the past. I think, again, we are not there yet, if there is parody. I think that the reason millennials think this is because its true. They think its harder for a woman to get ahead when she has children, and not quite as hard for a man to get ahead when he has children because that is fact in the work place right now. One of the things of a determine salary is whether or not you have kids. Its been true that women with children earn less than women without children. It used to be true that men with children earnt more than men without children. That is beginning to shift. I dont think men are quite caught up to the reality. In last august hanna rosin published an article saying that the idea that theres a gender gap was a myth, and a gap exists, but the gap had less to do with discrimination and more with what happened with men and women, that they congregated in different jobs and womens pay dropped off because of things we discussed. Child rearing and care giving of elder parents. Is that fair. Have we made too much . I agree with hannah, theres a gender gap. It used to be blatantly because people would look at a man and woman and decide she should learn less than he. I dont think it happens. Truly its not the central problem. The main problem is the way the system is set up, it makes it tougher for women to have all the pieces fit in their lives than it is at the moment for men. We have a social media question. Michael todd says equality is not the deciding factor. More money doesnt always equal request. What do you say that . This generation told us they want Different Things out of work. Salary is not the main measure, they want work they are committed to, balance in the life at home. Yes, salary is not everything. Its what we traditionally measured. Thats what we have a comparable set of figures for. Its not irrelevant. It is still a way to measure change. Certainly the gap narrowed because womens salaries increased significantly since the 1980s, and mens dropped. One place where women outpaced the men is on the education side of things, in College Enrolment and bachelor and graduate degrees. Are you surprised it didnt even out more quickly. That is what is striking. Out of the gate women are hit. They are more educated. The Playing Field is levelled. And something happens along the way. That something it what we now need to dig into and fix. Because the alternative is to let women not achieve to their full participation, and that is not okay. Its fascinating as you said, and a long survey, worth taking a look at. We appreciate you joining us. Switching to the latest on the Affordable Care act. On wednesday health and Community Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius told the house and Energy Committee that after the botched healthcare. Gov roll out it has picked up. Four times as many enrolled in november as in october. In the fires two months 1. 2 million americans accepted a marketbased plan or received a derl nation. With 365,000 accepting a plan and 803,000 receiving a determination. Is obamacare on track for success. For more im joined in the new york studio. Vice president for Medical CenterClinical Care and affiliates at n. Y. U. Langone Medical Center and host of heath care connect on sir. Us sz xm radio. A lot has changed. We are in trouble if the current trend conditions. Yes, but remember the website has been working only a few weeks, people are just starting to go there. Its probably smarter to look at states with functioning websites like new york and california, and see who is signing up. In those states the numbers are closer to 20 of Young Americans signing up to balance out the systems. Well have to see how this evolves. People are anxious to get insurance, elderly people who are disabled, locked out of the insurance markets. Theyll run to the health sites first. The Administration Says the website is functioning, it met its goals on being accessible. I tried it out. For me the times i tried it its working well. Is the administration, given the numbers we have, and the fact that the website is below what a private industry will find acceptable, will it be on track to sign up the numbers they need to make it work . My opinion, no way this first year. I think it will take a year or two what happens . Its a good question. The president extended Insurance Companies and state abilities to allow people to extend their plans. The numbers that people are signing up for, it will take a year to sort out. I dont expect a catastrophe coming from this. I dont think it will be enough of a detrimental effect. Like much of Everything Else in health care. Looking at some things coming out, we have a survey out of Duke University saying that 400 chief Financial Officers think obamacare will be poisonous for employment. The cfa, Duke University magazine polls think obamacare will force them to consider job cuts and 40 hiring fewer workers, and many saying theyll move workers to a 30 hour work week to avoid heath care insurance. Did the administration take that into account when planning this . We talked about this. Ceos are like other americans. Theres a lot of misinformation out there, and a lot of this is playing out. Health care costs are rising for years. Long before president obama was elected. I would argue on some level if we didnt do something to get Health Care Costs under control, the cfos would answer the same way in the survey. Now, the other part that is important, and a lot of people dont understand this and i dont expect them to. The exchanges, the people buying insurance on the marketplace. The other part, which is equally more important is how the Health Care Providers that i work for and many others work for are looking at new ways to deliver the care we deliver now. Less expensively and more efficiency to slow down the cost curve. Couldnt they have done that before. Sure, but they didnt. I shouldnt say they didnt. It takes time. The Affordable Care act accelerates the process. Whether it works is a big question. That has started. From the standing point of someone working in the hospital system, information last weekabout california, a lot of discussion about how many doctors will opt out and not participate in obamacare, will it be a problem . Its not that they are opting out of bare , obamacare, and the insurance exchanges. Some will, some wont. Time will tell if theres enough providers. For an Insurance Company to sell insurance, they need enough providers in the network. They have to balance out paying their doctors enough to sell the insurance to the numbers that want to belong. Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said theyd launch an investigation into what happened with the obamacare rollout. A lot of people are saying why will they investigate themselves . This is washington. Thats how things work. Will it improve how the exchanges function . Absolutely not. Will it enrol more in Health Care Reform . Absolutely not. We knew it was coming. Are you optimistic. Moderately. More or less . Im more optimistic that they jumped over a hurdle. We have many more hurdles ahead of them. We have a lack of information and understanding leading to more uncertainty and time will stop that. Theres a number that need health care and dont know it exists. Atalk to them all the time. Andrew rubin, great to have you here. Has new Technology Led to big brother bosses . We run down the question of how far is too far when we snoop. Harmeli aregawi is tracking the tab stories. Whats up. 24 employees say they were fired for speaking up. Ill tell you more. Join in the conversation. How closely are you being watched at work . Its no longer just about what you post on social media, write in an email or what your last key stroke was. We report on the next phase of monitoring employees. Data collecting badges that track your every move. Most are not jumping at the idea of wearing an employee tracking device. Three questions asked is how many times do you go to the bath room, does my boss look at my data and do you record what i say . As cool as how it sounds, i had those questions. The device collects behavioural metrics, top of voice, with an end goal of producing an end goal. Think billy in moneyball. The problem we are trying to solve is there are rich teams and poor teams and 50 feet of crap and then us for the sake of a oneday trial we collected at an individual letter. We are at soeshia Economic Solutions. Im about to get the badge how do i use this. Data is collected. Yes. Im a little selfconscious. To test we enlisted the help of the bens colleagues. A Conference Room discussion about what to order for lunch. Very heavy stuff. Consistently david wins the competitions. Would like date day. Hold on. You know the coworker that talks and talks. Do you think. Hold on a sec. And played that guy. Oh, did the data show it. This is me in blue, now people can come and say, ben, you need to tone it down. We compared an alert employee with a tired employee. Time for a snooze. Again. The data was loud and clear. You are in your chair. Your posture is up rite and you are moving around. It flat lines when you lay down. If my boss had access to the data i might be in trouble. I asked if bens company would sell the product to someone that wanted to spy on employees, and if not, how do you prevent it . They are not allowed to use it in a way that identifies users. We wont operate this that way. Ben says clients employees couldses the badges. Why . Bank of america is a good example. Bens team saw a call center was outperforming the other. They looked at the data the badge collected and made a simple change. They gave half the teams at the lesser performing call center the same scheduled break time. People comcompleted calls when we made the challenge. There was no change in the group where they didnt change their breaks. Its incredibility. When people chat with employees, social, less stressed in their performance. Yes. Its not rocket science. People analytics is evolving. You may be the next lucky or unlucky employee to find a badge with your name on it. We are joined by a guy that talks and talks and talks, ben waber, the ceo of socialo Economic Solutions and the author of the book people analytics, and don peck, Deputy Editor of at lantic magazine, his cover story wa theyre watching you at work shows how they are transforming the hire, fire and promotes and joins us from washington. Don, we know we are monitored in all sorts of ways, depending on where you work, employees watch your emails and instant messages. Twothirds of employers are monitoring your internet activity. We have cameras, they have phone information, laptop information, some monitor every key stroke we use on our computers. Why would a data gathering badge like that be an invasion of privacy . Well, its different than those other methods because companies are beginning to do things beyond looking at whether you are surreptitiously looking at pornography. They are using data comparing it to metrics of performance. They are using the data to try to assess how people are doing and how they can do their jobs better. Its a different tracking. Whether its an invasion of privacy as the opening segment indicated depends on the employer and the way they use the data. Ben, your company doesnt want the badges to be used to monitor individuals, they want to come to the workplace and look at group trends, not about tracking employees. Why is it a big deal to focus on the individual. Fill. In terms of the technology, employers dont have the ability to look at the data. We aggravate the data. Its not possible for an employer to look at it. If we hacked into the database, we wouldnt know whose data is who. Theres protection in there. But i think its important that the idea today. One of the examples is the work i do in retail. Think about the way it works today. I might have Stores Across the country, and maybe one store that is outperforming lots of other storms. Fundamentally i have no idea why that is happening. Its about the way employees are interacting with customers and talking to each other. Understanding that is hugely important. If i bottle that and transfer it to all the other people and teams, it will make everyone happier. You did that in the bank of america example. I understand looking at it in a group way. Sure. Wouldnt it help if you had more information about individuals and how effective they were . The thing is that in terms of performance data, we are not the badges themselves and the sources is what we tap into. We are not generating the performance data, its data that we can relate to patterns. Say, for example, if you take a rest at work and a nap, to say thats unproductive, that its not accurate. We are taking data that the company has and relating it to the patterns. Its not to say there are not potential uses for data. The potential makes goin