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Where to Now? Women's Leadership Needs New Direction

Washington Post Magazine

By Vanessa Gezari • March 15, 2009


Where to Now?
2008 was a spectacular year for women in politics. But the sober reality is that the race has just begun.

By Vanessa Gezari
Sunday, March 15, 2009; W08

Jennifer James Soto arrived in Georgia on a Friday afternoon. The air was thick with humidity, and the campus on the outskirts of Atlanta was deserted except for her and the other women. They carried their suitcases into dormitories and laid out their clothes on narrow student beds. That evening, Jennifer dressed carefully, choosing dangly earrings because her kids weren't around to tug them. This weekend would be the longest she'd spent away from her son and daughter since they were born.

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