Hi, Ashley here. As I mentioned on the last show, this podcast you're about to hear isn't new. I produced it in the spring of 2015 and it's about women in politics. That was long before Theresa May became Prime Minister of Britain and even before Hillary Clinton had officially declared her candidacy. Since then, we've obviously heard a lot more about

Clinton and her emails, but when I spoke to my first guest, that scandal was brand new.

And my second guest, Madeline Cunin, who's in her 80s, she actually campaigned against

Clinton's democratic opponent, Bernie Sanders, for governor of Vermont 30 years ago.

Here's the show.

Welcome to The Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success.

I'm Ashley Meln-Tight.

This time on the show, women in politics, from someone who covers them.

Hillary Clinton and her emails, obviously this discussion of her emails and whether they were

kept in a personal server is an important one. Does it require 500,000 articles over the

past week in and of itself? One's got to question that. To someone who spent much of her

adult life as a politician.

It was a test, and in some ways it was a test every day.

But every time I passed it, I felt exhilarated.

And she wants other women to follow in her footsteps.

Coming up, politics is power.

So why don't more women enter the arena?

This episode of The Broad Experience is produced in partnership with the Financial Times, and my first guest is the FTs Washington Bureau Chief Megan Murphy.

Megan recently moved back to the U.S. after 12 years working for the FT in London.

I wanted to hear how she thought life for women in politics differed in each country.

Now, neither country scores high when it comes to the numbers of women in Parliament or Congress. The UK is number 57 in the world and the US is number 72.

Megan says for one thing, in the US, a politician can still run on a platform of so-called women's issues, and that isn't so much the case in Britain. In the UK,

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