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WHAT
WILL IT TAKE FOR A WOMAN TO WIN THE WHITE HOUSE?
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Carol Moseley Braun
Eleanor Clift
Marie Wilson
Judith Shapiro
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Please
Join President Judith Shapiro of Barnard College on Monday,
March 8, for a forum with 2004 presidential candidate Carol
Moseley Braun, and two of the nation's leading thinkers on
women and politics - Newsweek correspondent Eleanor
Clift and Marie Wilson, president of The White House Project
and author of the new book Closing the Leadership Gap:
Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World. With President
Shapiro as moderator, these influential women will address
the question: What Will It Take for a Woman to Win the White
House?
The forum, in celebration of International Women's Day, will
take place from 5:30-7 p.m. on the Barnard campus in Millicent
McIntosh Center. Please RSVP: whitehouse@barnard.edu
or call (212) 854-2037 (Office of Public Affairs, Barnard)
Students, in particular, are encouraged to attend.
Wilson's new book, to be released on March 8, draws attention
to the fact that American women lag behind much of the western
world in holding political office, ranking 60th in political
leadership for women worldwide (behind Sierra Leone and South
Africa, among other countries).
The discussion will focus on several issues:
How can American women raise their numbers at all levels of
elected office? (in the United States House and Senate, there
are only 73 women, and among governors of the 50 states, only
8 are women)
How can American women reverse a rate of political representation
that the National Women's Political Caucus says will prevent
women from achieving political parity for another two centuries?
What obstacles make it tougher for women to win and how can
these be overcome?
What are the factors that continue to create resistance to
a woman at the top of the U.S. government?
What strategies and steps are in play to close the leadership
gap?
Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun was the only woman among
the nine candidates for the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate.
She was the first African-American woman elected to the Senate.
Marie Wilson is co-founder and president of The White
House Project, which is dedicated to advancing women's political
representation across the board, including the presidency.
Eleanor Clift has covered the White House, politics and
Congress for Newsweek and is a weekly panelist on the
popular TV political show, "The McLaughlin Group."
WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR A WOMAN TO WIN THE WHITE HOUSE?
5:30-7:00 P.M.
Monday, March 8, 2004
Millicent McIntosh Center
Barnard College
3009 Broadway at West 117th Street
New York City
RSVP: whitehouse@barnard.edu
For more information, please call the Barnard Office of Public
Affairs, 212-854-2037
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