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The Official Word
Tammy Baldwin, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Linda Chavez-Thompson, Janet Cowell, Amy Dean, April Fairfield, Barbara Lee, Laura Miller, and Lynn Woolsey on leadership.
Teaching Women To Win
Europe Crawls Ahead
The Scandinavians are doing great, but as for the rest ...
Defying Expectations
Having a woman leader isn't always enough.
Editorial
No Questions Asked.
Back Talk
Ain't nothing like the real feminism.
Homeland insecurity.
Appall-o-Meter
Before the Dawn
Will political reform finally come to Burma?
Jury awards $4.4 million to a pair of Earth First! activists.
Hundreds of 9/11 detainees remain behind bars, shrouded in secrecy.
A Man of Peace
In Person: Dave Dellinger
Never Again—and Again and Again
BOOKS: Samantha Power's A Problem from Hell.
FILM: John Woo's Windtalkers.
MUSIC: DJ Shadow's The Private Press.
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June 21, 2002
Laura Miller
Mayor of Dallas
After 20 years working as a newspaper reporter, I ran for the Dallas City Council in 1998. Immediately after announcing my intention to run, I got a call from a TV reporter I’d known for years who said my opponent was having a news conference that afternoon to release “bombshell” information about me that would derail my City Council bid. I will always remember that day as the day I went from being the hunter to the hunted. (By the way, there was a news conference—just no bombshell). My election to the council in 1998 marked the first time in the history of the city that there was a female majority on the council. My hope would be that all cities—not just the nation’s largest—would exhibit this kind of inclusion. Women make for great politicians. My best advice to women is to forget you’re a woman. I have never given a thought to my gender, and it has served me well. Voters want honesty, integrity and hard work—they don’t care if they get it from a man or a woman.
Women can hold leadership positions by simply running for leadership roles. But I find that the key to winning a leadership role is having strong convictions and an easily articulated reason to want to be a leader. Having goals and expressing them well, in as much detail as possible, is what people like to see in their leaders. |
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