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Hello, and welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, February 3rd. I'm Hannah Rosen, editor of Double X, and I'm joined here in the Washington studio by Kate Julian, who's also an editor of Double X. Hi, Kate. Hello. And in the New York studio is Jessica Gross joining us. Hi, Jess. Hi, guys. Today we're going to talk about three things. First, the women and the Egyptian uprising. We no longer call it the Egyptian chaos. Second, we're going to talk about the wonderful series by Jess Gross and Slate about couples and finance. And then third, we're going to talk about a new book by Peggy Ornstein, a New York Times magazine writer called Cinderella, Eight My Daughter. So first, let's start with the Egyptian uprising. As with the Iranian elections, there's been a lot of talk about whether women are on the streets. And that's the first thing we're going to talk about. And then we'll branch out into a larger conversation about what this revolution means for women. Because there's always with these revolutions and

repressive regimes, you know, in what new ways can women can get screwed by a new regime,

a new and more repressive regime. So Jess, tell me what you have seen and heard about women

on the streets and whether they're a part of this revolution.

Well, at first, it really did seem that Egyptian women were participating more than they did in previous protests.

It seemed they really felt they could affect change and that motivated them despite potential danger.

We had a post on double X saying that there were estimates saying anywhere from 20 to 50% of protesters

were women, which is huge, considering they face a lot of danger and street harassment

just generally.

So that seemed moving.

And then sort of as the protest went on and people were getting killed, things got more

violent, reports seem to say that the majority of the protesters now are young men. So they do,

at least initially, seemed quite involved and more so than in previous protests. And Kate, I was wondering if you, you know,

had any more info or I'd read anything else that, you know, sort of bolstered that or any personal,

did you read? I mean, it's really hard to tell. I do know that Anne Coulter last night on Hannity

was complaining about the lack of women. She said a mob that is mostly

men has never led to something good. What's going on with Ann Coulter? Wow, she's on our team now.

Cool. She seemed mostly to be upset about how all of the liberals were more pro-Egypt uprising

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