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Madame President, Our Teacher

The primary role of parents applies also to teachers and world leaders:
Dear Madame President [though of course, you may turn out to be a man]:
Teaching and teacher education have traditionally been viewed as women’s work and practiced by women. Like nursing, teaching has never been taken seriously among the more august professions….
I suspect [...]

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She Could Be President of the United States of America

Review of Catherine Thimmesh and Douglas B. Jones’s Madam President: The Extraordinary, True (and Evolving) Story of Women in Politics.

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