Salute to Women Form

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Salute to Women Form 2020 SALUTE TO WOMEN DAUGHTERS OF PENELOPE 2020 RECIPIENT OF THE “SALUTE TO WOMEN” AWARD JANET E. PETRO DEPUTY CENTER DIRECTOR FOR JOHN F. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER The Salute to Women was founded by Past Grand President Honorable associate administrator and acting director for the Office of Evaluation. Betty Athanasakos and Past Grand President Joanna Panagopoulos More recently, in May 2017 Petro was named the Program Executive Merakos. The idea originated in 1965 to recognize that the Daughters of to lead the agency wide initiative for a phased implementation to Penelope was emerging as a major National and International Woman’s restructure all mission support functions, including Human Capital, Philanthropic Organization. Finance and Legislative Affairs, and to ensure efficient and effective support of NASA’s missions. Since the Daughters of Penelope had proven to be a dynamic force in their local communities and was making a stir throughout the U.S., Petro began her professional career as a commissioned officer in the Canada, and Greece. Ms. Athanasakos recommended the Daughters of U.S. Army after graduating in 1981 from the U.S. Military Academy at West Penelope recognize an outstanding woman outside of the organization. Point, New York, with a Bachelor of Science in engineering. She served Four years later, Grand President Merakos adopted the idea to honor a in the U.S. Army’s aviation branch with various assignments overseas in woman who represented and possessed the goals and ideals of the Germany. She also holds a Master of Science in business administration Daughters of Penelope and the “SALUTE” became a reality. from Boston University’s Metropolitan College. The first Salute to Women event was held at the Sheraton Park Hotel Prior to joining NASA, Petro served in various management positions in Washington, DC. The Salute to Women is awarded biennially and for Science Applications International Corp., also known as SAIC, and is presented at a reception held during the AHEPA Family Supreme McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Corporation. At SAIC, Petro held a number Convention. of positions, including program/project manager, division manager, and deputy operations manager for several entities within the corporation’s The Daughters of Penelope are Proud to Announce Janet E. Petro as the operations. She interfaced with NASA, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. 2020 Daughters of Penelope Salute to Women Honoree! Navy and commercial entities on numerous aerospace and military programs. As the interface to senior-level government customers, Petro Janet E. Petro is the deputy director of NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space was responsible for overseeing program and project managers and Center in Florida. providing operational guidance on various technical programs. Appointed to the deputy director position in April 2007, she shares At McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, Petro advanced from mechanical responsibility with the center director in managing the Kennedy team of engineer and payload manager, leading the processing and integration civil service and contractor employees, determining and implementing of classified payloads for both space shuttle and expendable launch center policy and managing and executing Kennedy vehicles; to program manager for executing a classified, missions and agency program responsibilities. As Kennedy multimillion-dollar U.S. Department of Defense program, transitioned into a multi-user spaceport, she led cross integrating payloads onto various space vehicles at U.S. Air agency initiatives with the Federal Aviation Administration Force and NASA facilities; to senior manager in Advance and U.S. Air Force to streamline government processes Products Division; to senior manager for Communications and support commercial space operations, to increase and Data Systems Division. government efficiency and limit redundancy. Beginning in September 2012, she served a 12-month appointment Originally from Detroit, Michigan, she now resides with her at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., as the deputy family in Indian Harbour Beach, Florida. Honorees Senator Margaret Chase Smith Dr. Sarah E. Smith Brig. Gen. Elizabeth Hosington Brig. Gen. Ann Mae Hays Former First Lady Betty Ford The Honorable Lindy Boggs Former Amb. Shirley Temple Black Diamond Benefactor $500 The Hon Olympia J. Snowe Emerald Benefactor $250 Platinum Benefactor $150 Matina Horner President of Radcliff College Gold Benefactor $100 Betty White Silver Benefactor $50 Actress Helen Boosalis Mayor Lincoln Nebraska Helen Thomas Enclosed is a check in the amount of $___________ to be listed in the UPI White House Correspondent program as follows: Eunice Kennedy Shriver Founder of Special Olympics Chapter Name: _______________________ Chapter No: ________ The Hon Barbara Spyridon Asst. Sec. of the Navy for Manpower and ~or~ Reserve Affairs District Name: _______________________ District No.: _________ Elaine K. Shocas Chief of Staff to the US & Ambassador to ~or~ the UN Individual Benefactor Dr. Zoe Papadopoulos Couloumbis Dr. Kathryn Coumanis Name: ______________________________ Executive Director, Penelope House Address: _____________________________ Julia Terzis, M.D. FRCS, PhD Thalia Assuras City/State: ________________________________ CBS News Anchor Zip/Postal Code: _______________________ Dr. Christine Warnke Governor Affairs Advisor Please make your check payable to Daughters of Penelope Maria Pappas (please earmark for Salute to Women 2020) – Deadline: June 15 Cook County Treasurer Mail payment to Daughters of Penelope Headquarters at The Honorable Dora Bakoyannis 1909 Q Street, NW, Suite 500 | Washington, DC 20009 Foreign Minister of Greece The Hon. Erato K. Marcoullis ~or~ Foreign Minister of Cyprus Charge my: VISA Master Card AMEX The Hon. Eleni Bakopanos Card No._____________________________ Canadian Privy Council CVV (last 3 digits on back of cc)__________ U.S. Representative Shelley Berkley Exp. Date_________ Signature______________________ U.S. Representative Dina Titus World Renown Chef Cat Cora I will attend I am unable to attend Olympic Gold Medalist Shannon Miller For additional information, please contact Salute Chairmen Distributing Dignity Joanne Booras, PGP, at [email protected], & Eva Jean Fomalont, PGP, at [email protected] .
Recommended publications
  • Women in the United States Congress: 1917-2012
    Women in the United States Congress: 1917-2012 Jennifer E. Manning Information Research Specialist Colleen J. Shogan Deputy Director and Senior Specialist November 26, 2012 Congressional Research Service 7-5700 www.crs.gov RL30261 CRS Report for Congress Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Women in the United States Congress: 1917-2012 Summary Ninety-four women currently serve in the 112th Congress: 77 in the House (53 Democrats and 24 Republicans) and 17 in the Senate (12 Democrats and 5 Republicans). Ninety-two women were initially sworn in to the 112th Congress, two women Democratic House Members have since resigned, and four others have been elected. This number (94) is lower than the record number of 95 women who were initially elected to the 111th Congress. The first woman elected to Congress was Representative Jeannette Rankin (R-MT, 1917-1919, 1941-1943). The first woman to serve in the Senate was Rebecca Latimer Felton (D-GA). She was appointed in 1922 and served for only one day. A total of 278 women have served in Congress, 178 Democrats and 100 Republicans. Of these women, 239 (153 Democrats, 86 Republicans) have served only in the House of Representatives; 31 (19 Democrats, 12 Republicans) have served only in the Senate; and 8 (6 Democrats, 2 Republicans) have served in both houses. These figures include one non-voting Delegate each from Guam, Hawaii, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Currently serving Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) holds the record for length of service by a woman in Congress with 35 years (10 of which were spent in the House).
    [Show full text]
  • Rochester Blue Book 1928
    Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Miscellaneous Directories V,ZP7. ROCHESTER V^SZ 30GIC Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Miscellaneous Directories NASH-GATES CO. NASH DISTRIBUTORS TWO RETAIL STORES 336 EAST AVENUE 775( CULVER ROAD Phones: Stone 804-805 Phones: Culver 2600-2601 32 (Thestnut Street-' M.D.JEFFREYS -^VOCuC^tCt*;TX.TJ. L. M. WEINER THE SPIRIT OF GOOD SERVICE AND UNEQUALED FACILITIES FOR ITS ACCOMPLISHMENT 2 Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Miscellaneous Directories 0 UNION ROCHESTER'S best families for over a quarter of a TRUST century have profitably em­ ployed tlie service of this COMPANY fifty-million dollar, five-branch, financial institution. Attractive separate depart­ ments for women. OFFICES Union Trust Building Main St eet at South Avenue Main Street at East Avenue OF Clifford and Joseph Avenues ROCHESTER 4424 Lake Avenue j^+*4^********4-+***+****+*4-+++++*++44'*+****++**-fc*4.*^ (dlfntrp 3Unuimf, 1 ROCHESTER, N,Y Bworattottfl. ijpahttB, Jforttn ani Jfflmuering flanta «S*THpTT,T*,f"f"Wwww**^************^*********^****** * 3 Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Miscellaneous Directories |imaiiyMMMMMiu«MM^ Phones: Main 1737-1738 Joseph A. Schantz Co. Furniture, Fire-Proof Storage and Packing of Household Goods AUTO VANS FOR OUT OF TOWN MOVING Office and Salesroom 253 St. Paul, cor. Central Avenue Central Crust Company ROCHESTER, N. Y. The "Friendly" Bank Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits $1,500,000 Interest Paid on Special Deposits Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent Main Office Brighton Branch 25 MAIN STREET, EAST 1806 EAST AVENUE 4 Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Miscellaneous Directories B.FORMAN CD WOMEN'S, GIRLS' and INFANTS' APPAREL AND ALL ACCESSORIES Clinton Avenue South Rochester, N.
    [Show full text]
  • GA Company List
    List of CA Grants & Annuities Companies CA Company Name Company Code AARP FOUNDATION G4857 ACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA G2891 ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA (THE) G5084 ADVENTIST FRONTIER MISSIONS, INC. G4797 AFRICA INLAND MISSION INTERNATIONAL, INC. G4921 ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL G5892 ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE G5891 ALLEGHENY COLLEGE G5977 ALLIANCE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION G4616 ALTA BATES SUMMIT FOUNDATION G4349 ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION, INC. G4701 AMERICAN ASSOCIATES, BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV, INC. G5134 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN, INC. G5870 AMERICAN BAPTIST FOUNDATION G5049 AMERICAN BAPTIST HOMES FOUNDATION OF THE WEST, INC. G2650 AMERICAN BAPTIST SEMINARY OF THE WEST G2651 AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY G2652 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, INC. G4420 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION, INC. G5590 AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, INC. G4480 AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION G5105 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM G6220 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, INC. G4840 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY, INC. G4957 AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE, INCORPORATED G2653 AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION, INC. G3598 AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION (THE) G5163 AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH (THE) G4684 AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND, INC. G4643 AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES, INC. G4610 AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION G4282 AMERICAN MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP G2656 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION-ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, INC. G5910 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE
    [Show full text]
  • Community Engagement and Educational Outreach
    Community Engagement and Educational Outreach In November 1977, 20,000 women and men left their jobs and homes in cities and small towns around the country to come together at the fi rst National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas. Their aim was to end dis- crimination against women and promote their equal rights. Present were two former fi rst ladies–Lady Bird Johnson and Betty Ford—and the current fi rst lady, Rosalyn Carter. Also present were grandmothers and lesbians, Republicans and Democrats, African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinas, and Native Ameri- can women—and the most infl uential leaders of the burgeoning women’s movement—Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Eleanor Smeal, Ann Richards, Coretta Scott King, Barbara Jordan and others. SISTERS OF ’77 provides a fascinating look at that pivotal weekend and how it changed American life and the lives of the women who attended. Using the fi lm as a focus piece, ITVS’s Community Connections Project (CCP), community engagement and educational outreach campaign, reaches out to: • Organizations that invest in building young women leaders • University and high school students who participate in gender studies, political science, history and social studies • Organizations that promote women’s equal rights, reproductive freedom, lesbian and minority rights • Internet groups that focus on democracy in action, social change and human rights Independent Television Service (ITVS) 501 York Street San Francisco, CA 94110 phone 415.356.8383 email [email protected] web www.itvs.org The goals
    [Show full text]
  • Maria Shriver
    20 0 VISIONARIES2 To celebrate 20 years of O, each month we’re spotlighting remarkable people who are changing the way we look at our world. THE ADVOCATE Maria Shriver THE JOURNALIST AND FORMER FIRST LADY OF CALIFORNIA BELIEVES IN GIVING BACK, SPEAKING OUT, AND STANDING UP FOR GOODNESS. PHOTOGRAPHS BY Lorenzo Agius Cardigan, O, The Oprah Magazine Collection for Talbots, $129. Top, Talbots, $79.50. Jeans, Talbots, $95. Clothing available at talbots.com. FASHION EDITOR: JACQUELINE AZRIA. HAIR: MITCH BARRY USING ORIBE HAIRCARE. MAKEUP: MARIE JOSEE LAFONTAINE USING CHANEL MAKEUP. MANICURE: ROSEANN SINGLETON FOR CHANEL VERNIS. SET DESIGN: TODD WIGGINS. LIFT THE PAGE FOR SHRIVER’S @OPRAHMAGAZINE MARCH 2020 REVEALING ANSWERS TO OUR O QUIZ! 2 20 0 VISIONARIES2 THE O QUIZ Twenty questions with Maria Shriver. Cardigan, O, The Oprah 1. What’s most And losing my when I was a little Magazine important for your independence. girl and my letters Collection for mental health? from my children. Talbots, Taking walks, my 7. If you could send $89.50. Dress, meditation practice, a note to yourself in 16. What places or Talbots, $169. and surrounding 2030, what would it adventures are still myself with people say? Your kids are all on your bucket list? healthy and happy. ADVOCACY IS IN Maria Shriver’s DNA. who love me. I’d love to visit the You did a good job. “I was raised by people who were architects Maldives. 2. What do you You can rest. of change, and they expected the same of think about on long 17. What ignites 8.
    [Show full text]
  • News Release Michigan State University Commencement
    NEWS RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT: Kristen Parker, University Relations, (517) 353-8942, [email protected] MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT/CONVOCATION SPEAKERS 1907 Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. president 1914 Thomas Mott Osborn 1915 David Starr Jordan, Chancellor, Leland Stanford Junior University 1916 William Oxley Thompson, president, Ohio State University 1917 Samuel M. Crothers 1918 Liberty H. Bailey 1919 Robert M. Wenley, University of Michigan 1920 Harry Luman Russell, dean, University of Wisconsin 1921 Woodridge N. Ferris 1922 David Friday, MSU president 1923 John W. Laird 1924 Dexter Simpson Kimball, dean, Cornell University 1925 Frank O. Lowden 1926 Francis J. McConnell 1931 Charles R. McKenny, president, Michigan State Normal College 1933 W.D. Henderson, director of university extension, University of Michigan 1934 Ernest O. Melby, professor of education, Northwestern University 1935 Edwin Mims, professor of English, Vanderbilt University 1936 Gordon Laing, professor, University of Chicago 1937 William G. Cameron, Ford Motor Co. 1938 Frank Murphy, governor of Michigan 1939 Howard C. Elliott, president, Purdue University 1940 Allen A. Stockdale, Speakers’ Bureau, National Assoc. of Manufacturers 1941 Raymond A. Kent, president, University of Louisville 1942 John J. Tiver, president, University of Florida 1943 C.A. Dykstra, president, University of Wisconsin 1944 Howard L. Bevis, president, Ohio State University 1945 Franklin B. Snyder, president, Northwestern University 1946 Edmund E. Day, president, Cornell University 1947 James L. Morrill, president, University of Minnesota 1948 Charles F. Kettering 1949 David Lilienthal, chairperson, U.S. Atomic Commission 1950 Alben W. Barkley, U.S. vice president (For subsequent years: S-spring; F-fall; W-winter) 1951-S Nelson A.
    [Show full text]
  • Planting Seeds of Change: Mental Health Residential Services See Story on Page 4
    wintervol. 24, issue 1 2012 Planting Seeds of Change: Mental Health Residential Services See story on page 4. FROM THE CEO From ‘seeds’ to services Seeds of change. The phrase appears on the cover of this publication, it’s the title for the feature story, and the theme continues within these pages. For over a century Rosecrance has planted seeds of change in our clients. We nurture them, care for them, and help them grow into a life of recovery. On a larger scale the organization itself has done that a few times, as well … growing and evolving to serve individuals and families who desperately need that change. That type of care can be attributed to how we care for our clients, and how we manage our organization. As needs have emerged, we have adapted to meet them. Last fall we announced the intent to merge Prairie Center—a substance abuse agency with locations in Champaign-Urbana and elsewhere in Central Illinois—into Rosecrance. That merger was effective Philip W. Eaton President/CEO January 1, 2018, and will allow us to create a stronger overall presence in that region, providing both outpatient and residential services. This expansion has been very well received in the community. Recent changes in our adolescent residential programming at the Rosecrance Griffin Williamson campus are an exciting evolution and expansion in our services. Recovery has many faces, and we are privileged to offer a greater continuum of behavioral health programming, to serve adolescents with a primary mental health disorder. I am confident you will share our excitement for this opportunity as we serve a population that has often faced a shortage of solutions.
    [Show full text]
  • RECORD-SETTING OPENING to TATTS DAVID GREATHOUSE PASSES AWAY by Emma Berry and Catherine Austen David Greathouse Passed Away Tuesday in Kentucky
    WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here RECORD-SETTING OPENING TO TATTS DAVID GREATHOUSE PASSES AWAY by Emma Berry and Catherine Austen David Greathouse passed away Tuesday in Kentucky. A day of fiercely strong trading at the Tattersalls= Greathouse, who had been battling liver cancer, was October Sale culminated in a new European yearling 63. He is survived by his wife, record of 3.6-million guineas Buffy, two children (son Deuce (US$6,079,311) when a colt by and daughter Emma), three Galileo (Ire) sold to the Coolmore brothers and two sisters. Funeral team which stands the world=s arrangements have not yet been preeminent stallion. announced. The transaction contributed to the ADavid was multifaceted, in highest-grossing session at Park the best sense of that word,@ Lot 144 Paddocks since the start of October said longtime friend and business Book 1 in 2003. A 79% clearance tattersalls.com associate Kerry Cauthen. AHe rate was achieved from the 124 really was an exceptional yearlings sold for 26,319,000gns, a rise in aggregate of horseman and he was also an 14%. The sector which benefited from the greatest increase, of 28%, was the average of 212,250gns, exceptional horse-businessman. He knew every part of the while the median of 117,500gns was up by 7%. David Greathouse Just as last week at Goffs, John Magnier held his industry, from the breeding to the raising side to the actual 1950-2013 nerve against a determined rival to ensure that the Four Star Sales Photo Galileo colt, a full-brother to G1 Investec Oaks dollars-and-cents side of the runner-up Secret Gesture (GB), was another expensive business.@ addition to the team of bluebloods at Ballydoyle.
    [Show full text]
  • Press Release
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 14, 2019 MEDIA CONTACT: Matt Porter (617) 514-1574 [email protected] www.jfklibrary.org John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Essay Contest Winner Recounts Conflict over Refugees Fleeing Nazi Germany – Winning Essay Profiles Former US Representative Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts – Boston, MA—The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation today announced that Elazar Cramer, a senior at the Maimonides School in Brookline, Massachusetts, has won the national John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Essay Contest for High School Students. The winning essay describes the political courage of Edith Nourse Rogers, a Republican US Representative from Massachusetts who believed it was imperative for the United States to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Nazi Germany. She defied powerful anti-immigrant groups, prevailing public opinion, and the US government’s isolationist policies to propose legislation which would increase the number of German-Jewish refugee children allowed to enter the United States. Cramer will be honored at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum on May 19, 2019, and will receive a $10,000 scholarship award. The first-place winner will also be a guest at the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation’s May Dinner at which Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, will receive the 2019 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. Pelosi is being honored for putting the national interest above her party’s interest to expand access to health care for all Americans and then, against a wave of political attacks, leading the effort to retake the majority and elect the most diverse Congress in our nation’s history.
    [Show full text]
  • THE GADSDEN Volume 229 GAB
    February 2009 THE GADSDEN Volume 229 GAB President’s Message 2 Birthdays/Community News 4 Activities & Festivities 6-7 The Chaplain’s Corner 11 Philip Simmons: A Consummate Artist and his Reflections Barbara Tuck As we enter Black History month, with the awe-inspiring inauguration of our first African- American president fresh in our minds, it’s fitting to celebrate living black history in the person of Philip Simmons who now resides among us here at BG. Powerful in his art and character, Simmons is the epitome of someone who’s lived humbly yet has achieved the summit of success in his chosen art—designing and creating beautiful pieces of ornamental ironwork. Eight years old, with fifty cents in his pocket, Philip left his grandparents’ home on Daniel Is- land and took the ferry to Charleston to live with his mother and to attend the first class at Buist School. Lured by the click-click-click of the blacksmith shop at the end of Calhoun Street, which had been owned by a former slave, Simmons couldn’t wait to start a promised apprenticeship at age 13. Once he started, he kept alive the tradition of African-American blacksmiths for the next 80 years. Simmons left horseshoes behind and created elaborate designs in ironwork that now adorn and char- acterize Charleston’s beautiful homes and buildings. Simmons reflected on black history in a bench he de- signed in a collaborative effort to commemorate Rosa Parks’ defiance on a Montgomery bus. The size of a bus seat for two, this simple bench made an awesome statement—with the outline of a bus and the year 1955 on its back.
    [Show full text]
  • Blanche Kelso Bruce (1841–1898)
    Blanche Kelso Bruce (1841–1898) Born into slavery in 1841, Blanche Kelso n an effort to enhance the collection with portraits of women and Bruce became the first African American to minorities who served the U.S. Senate with distinction, the Senate serve a full term in the U.S. Senate, as well as the first African American to preside Commission on Art approved the commissioning of portraits of over the Senate. One of 11 children, Bruce Blanche Kelso Bruce and Margaret Chase Smith (p. 338) in October was born near Farmville, Virginia, and was 1999. Senator Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Committee taken to Mississippi and Missouri by his on Rules and Administration and a member of the Senate Commission owner. Just 20 years old when the Civil I War began, Bruce tried to enlist in the on Art, proposed the acquisition of Senator Bruce’s portrait, with the strong Union army. At that time, the army did not support of Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Republican Leader Trent accept black recruits, so instead Bruce turned to teaching; he later organized the Lott, also members of the commission. An advisory board of historians first school in Missouri for African Ameri- and curators was established to review the artists’ submissions and pro- cans. He briefly attended college in Ohio vide recommendations to the Senate Commission on Art. Washington, but left to work as a porter on a riverboat. In 1869 Bruce moved to Mississippi to D.C., artist Simmie Knox was selected in 2000 to paint Bruce’s portrait.
    [Show full text]
  • Madam President: Progress, Problems, and Prospects for 2008 Robert P
    Journal of International Women's Studies Volume 8 | Issue 1 Article 1 Nov-2006 Madam President: Progress, Problems, and Prospects for 2008 Robert P. Watson Follow this and additional works at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws Part of the Women's Studies Commons Recommended Citation Watson, Robert P. (2006). Madam President: Progress, Problems, and Prospects for 2008. Journal of International Women's Studies, 8(1), 1-20. Available at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol8/iss1/1 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. This journal and its contents may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. ©2006 Journal of International Women’s Studies. Madam President: Progress, Problems, and Prospects for 2008 By Robert P. Watson1 Abstract Women have made great progress in electoral politics both in the United States and around the world, and at all levels of public office. However, although a number of women have led their countries in the modern era and a growing number of women are winning gubernatorial, senatorial, and congressional races, the United States has yet to elect a female president, nor has anyone come close. This paper considers the prospects for electing a woman president in 2008 and the challenges facing Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice–potential frontrunners from both major parties–given the historical experiences of women who pursued the nation’s highest office.
    [Show full text]