Women and Leadership
Female role models in leadership.
Jane Fondas Words of Politics and Passion 
Historian Mary Hershberger has compiled some of the best words spoken by actress and political activist Jane Fonda. Reading Fondas words you realize they are as relevant and thought provoking today as when she spoke them. This book is an interesting insight into the life of a formidable activist
Michelle Bachelet, President and Single Mom.
President Bachelet is a fifty-four year old single mother of a twelve-year-old daughter and 2 grown children. As a torture victim and pediatrician she has a unique perspective on government reform. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi is the highest ranking women in the country, third in line for the presidency. She fulfills a path started ninety years ago, when Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to Congress. Now a woman holds the top position, wielding the gavel as Speaker of the House. She Opened the Government to Everyone
The former Governor of Texas, Ann Richards, said, I did not want my tombstone to read, she kept a really clean house. I think I would like them to remember me by saying, she opened the government to everyone. The Iron Lady
Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is the first elected head of state, not only of her country, but of the African continent as well. This divorced mother of four, grandmother of six children; is known to her supporters as the Iron Lady. Today we have Broken the Marble Ceiling
Today, Nancy Pelosi was sworn in as the first female Speaker of the House. She said, Today we have broken the marble ceiling. For our daughters and our granddaughters the sky is the limit.
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