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cited for increase in female ambassadors to and from U.S. (from Washington Post):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/10/AR2010011002731.html?hpid=topnews
quick quote:
"More than half of new recruits for the U.S. Foreign Service and 30 percent of the chiefs of mission are now women, according to the State Department. That is a seismic shift............"
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Awesome find Sharyn. Thanks for posting.
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I posted it early this morning on the Coakley thread.
-- and delightful when they pop right up again. h/t - TGW
there is one thing that is confusing and perhaps inaccurate. The article says:
"That is a seismic shift from the days, as late as the 1970s, when women in the Foreign Service had to quit when they married, a rule that did not apply to men. 'It was outrageous,' said Susan Johnson, president of the American Foreign Service Association. 'The idea was that a married woman could not be available for worldwide service. She would be having children and making a home.' "
Perhaps they didn't "have to" but bowed to other pressures or just decided to leave. I raise this alternative view, because Shirley Temple Black was appointed United States Ambassador to Ghana (December 6, 1974 – July 13, 1976) by President Ford.
Whether it was a requirement or just bowing to pressure. It is amazing how recent all this stuff is.
Quick report from Rochester...everything's good so far. Lung cultures won't be back for three weeks but function is good. Trans-esophageal echo scheduled bright and early tomorrow morning, then consult with cardiologist to discuss the results. He's more concerned about the mass in Russ's heart than he is about the aneurysm.
Wind's blowing a gale, causing some minor drifting. Temp in the teens. Not bad for Minnesota in January. We pulled over for a few minutes after dinner and watched an ice hockey game. We couldn't stand to get out of the car but they were out stroking across the rink and whacking the puck. Not much slows Minnesotans down. They have the nature of polar bears.
I'm glad to see some women are winning good positions in the State Department. twandx, I thought of you today while I was reading about Alice Paul in a history magazine at the clinic. Did you know they force-fed her when she went on a hunger strike? She came perilously close to being involuntarily committed to a mental facility...for supporting women's rights.
Whythehell don't they teach any of this stuff in school? Are they afraid we might want the rest of our rights?
I'm surprised that Alice Paul is still mentioned or written of in history mags. Your post reminds me that the road to quasi-equality is and has been paved with the slandered and mangled bodies of many women who will forever be nameless.
But we can be certain that the adoration of the media for a male criminal and consumate liar-in-chief will continue on covered with flowers and sloppy kisses.
the article I read said that Wilson eventually supported women's suffrage and that we were given the vote not as recognition of our equal status as human beings but as a "reward" for our work in keeping the nation in the fight during WWI.
Absolutely infuriating.
From Gonda 6 South and one of Mayo's handy terminals...Later, gang.
WHERETHEHELL IS MY ERA???