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Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change
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Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change

by Barbara Kellerman, Deborah L. Rhode
August 2007
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
12h 37m
English
Jossey-Bass
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SHE'S THE CANDIDATE!

A Woman for President

Ruth B. Mandel

This chapter is divided into two major sections: the first is a brief descriptive summary of historical and quantitative information about women as candidates for the presidency of the United States; the second is an essay contemplating the question of a woman for president from the vantage point of 2007, the moment when the first woman to be a serious contender for the highest office in the world's most powerful nation announced her candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.

A Woman for President?

“Why not me?”

A song sheet from 1961 captures the social context in which women who might have dreamt of running for president have found themselves. In large print above the freckled ...

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ISBN: 9780787988333