2. No woman on a major party ticket
What have we learned from past women
candidates?
3. Sarah Who?
John McCain’s
Running Mate
A little-
known
governor Video: Palin/Hilary
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4. Over 500 college age women were asked:
“Did the bids of Hillary Clinton and Sarah
Palin make you think that a woman would
become president in your lifetime?”
5.
6. The year 1992 was dubbed “The Year of the
Woman” because more women were elected to
Congress than ever before.
Fifty four women took congressional oaths of
office in 1992.
On the heels of the Anita Hill trial women said “we
will remember in November” and they did.
7. Carol Moseley-Braun
First African American
woman elected to the
US senate.
Reports that in 1992
people at the Capital
mistakenly took her for
staff (such as a
secretary or cleaning
person).
8. Margaret Chase Smith Patricia Schroeder Carolyn Moseley Braun
(1964) (1988) (2004)
Elizabeth Dole
(2000)
9. “After I went to Congress, a
student asked me why all our
presidents had been white men.
I knew why, but the reasons
weren't good ones. So I
decided to run. I campaigned in
32 states. People looked at me
funny. I suffered
disappointment, and
disillusionment because of my
race.”
16. In 2008 Sarah
Palin was the
Republican
candidate for
vice president.
• In 1984 Geraldine
Ferraro was the vice
presidential candidate
on the Democratic
ticket.
18. Candidates need to care about their appearance
and style.
“When a man shows feminine qualities it is accepted far
more easily than a woman who acts in a male fashion.
A woman politician who appears feminine is soon
regarded as a little mother. She is not regarded as
being decisive. A woman leader must be tough, strong,
and caring, all at the same time.”
---Marie Wilson, president of The White House Project
19. The first non-symbolic or viable candidate for
president who is a woman endured harsh media
criticism.
38. Parliamentary systems in other countries
have allowed for the election of more women to
office.
Tough media treatment of women candidates
in the United States may keep more would-be
candidates away from the US presidency.
Programs that encourage women to run are
helpful.
39. When we have a critical
mass of women willing to
run, possessing the “top
ten” qualities --- and who
beats her opponent --
America will have a
woman president