Dana Bash

Women bring things to the storytelling of news that is maybe more relatable to the women that are consuming.

Many women in politics say they had very few, if any, female role models.

Learning things that are interesting and other people would find interesting is the biggest rush.

I think it's my job to walk my beat and find the people I cover who have questions that should be answered.

Listening is the most under rated part of my profession.

It is our job to ask the questions that make everybody uncomfortable.

In 1967, my mother - then Francie Weinman - graduated from Northwestern University with a degree from the prestigious Medill School of Journalism. But because she is a woman, the only television news job she could get in her hometown of Chicago was as a secretary at a network affiliate.

Women, whatever their profession, tend to have a harder time feeling ready for a job, even though in most cases they are more than prepared.

For all the interviews Pelosi does, she doesn't talk often about her struggles and challenges as a woman.

To have or not to have kids, when to have them, and whether we working women can 'have it all' has been debated, discussed, and examined since the washing machine and the TV dinner began to free up many mothers to even consider leaving the home as a viable option.

Whether she planned it or not, the path that Pelosi took to the House is the one most women used to follow. Women raised their kids, and then they went into politics.

For years Pelosi has been the ultimate Republican boogeyman - or boogeywoman, as it were. She's a frequent target of Republican ire for being too far to the left - and she's also a target among progressives for not being far left enough.