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In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race. ”
NPR editors and journalists found themselves caught in a game of trying to please a leadership team who did not want to hear stories on the air about conservatives, the poor, or anyone who didn't fit their profitable design of NPR as the official voice of college-educated, white, liberal-leaning, upper-income America. ”
Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English. ”
I just think overall there's not as many female ministers than there are male ministers. ”
Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s. ”
Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue. ”
You ask how I feel to be the first female president in southern Africa? It's heavy for me. Heavy in the sense that I feel that I'm carrying this heavy load on behalf of all women. ”
Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women. ”
Overall, I have formed three major organizations: the National Association of Business Women, the Young Women's Leaders Network, and the Joyce Banda Foundation. Under the foundation, we have a huge program that targets women to teach them about HIV and other diseases and to give them economic empowerment. ”
I don't remember a single day during the time I was minister of gender, foreign minister, vice-president and president when I saw anything on the part of the men that indicated they were undermining me. ”