For the first time in over 200 years, a woman serves as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. This year, we witnessed the historic campaign of the country’s first viable female presidential candidate. Yet, women in elected office hold only sixteen seats in the U.S. Senate and seventy-one in the U.S. House of Representatives. A panel of high-profile female political professionals—Andrea Bernstein, WNYC Political Director; Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood; Dee Dee Myers, White House Press Secretary from 1993-1994 and author of Why Women Should Rule the World(2008), and; Ellen Malcolm, former President of America Coming Together, a political action group—discuss the role of women in politics, with an emphasis on Hillary Clinton. This event was held at The New School.
Posted: July 28th, 2010
Women in Charge: The Evolving Role of Women in Politics
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Yes, The increasing role of women in politics will lead a positive change in our socio-political culture.
Mystic White
Bravo to Prime Minister Erdogan for his shake down of Peres in public & his walk out at Davos. Peres was given more time to speak; the audience was shamefully silent about the atrocities inflicted upon the Palestinians during the Gaza onslaught; the mainstream press (as usual) ignored the grave & unsettling issues at stake by showing that the Turkish leader was at fault. Who was really at fault? Peres for lying about the cruelties of the Israeli onslaught & the other Davos participants for remaining shamefully silent . Furthermore, the unrelenting siege & tragedy continues today as the world leaders (even the Obama adm) remain mostly silent about what has happened to the Palestinian families in Gaza.