Conversations With Uncommon Women: Insights From Women Who've Risen Above Life's Challenges to Achieve Extraordinary Success

543 Pages·1999·1.18 MB·English

by  Ellie Wymard

Conversations With Uncommon Women :
Insights From Women Who've Risen Above
title:
Life's Challenges to Achieve Extraordinary
Success
author: Wymard, Ellie.
publisher: AMACOM Books
isbn10 | asin: 0814405207
print isbn13: 9780814405208
ebook isbn13: 9780585119878
language: English
Women in the professions--United States--
Interviews, Women in politics--United
States--Interviews, Women in public life--
United States--Interviews, Successful
subject
people--United States--Interviews, Women
in the professions--United States--
Biography, Women in
publication date: 1999
lcc: HD6054.2.U6W96 1999eb
ddc: 331.4/0973
Women in the professions--United States--
Interviews, Women in politics--United
States--Interviews, Women in public life--
subject: United States--Interviews, Successful
people--United States--Interviews, Women
in the professions--United States--
Biography, Women in
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Conversations With Uncommon Women
Insights From Women Who've Risen Above Life's
Challenges to Achieve Extraordinary Success
Ellie Wymard, Ph. D.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wymard, Ellie
Converstaions with uncommon women : insights from women who've
risen above life's challenges to achieve extraordinary success /
Ellie Wymard
p. cm.
ISBN 0-8144-0520-7 (alk. paper)
1. Women in the professionsUnited States Interviews. 2. Women in
politicsUnited States Interviews. 3. Women in public lifeUnited States
Interviews. 4. Successful peopleUnited States Interviews. 5. Women
in the professionsUnited States Biography.
6. Women in politicsUnited States Biography. 7. Women in public
lifeUnited States Biography. 8. Successful peopleUnited States
Biography. I. Title.
HD6054.2.U6W96 1999
331.4'0973dc21 99-34078
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For my husband, Joseph Michael Wymard,
and our grandchildren,
Thompson Parker Wymard
and
Elizabeth Reid Wymard
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Contents
Remarkable Voices vii
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xvii
Chapter One 1
Women in Politics: I Had to Go Out There and Fight
Chapter Two 53
Women and Policy: Entrepreneurial Advocates for Social
Change
Chapter Three 95
Women in the Law: Soundings From Bench and Bar
Chapter Four 135
Women in Journalism: Hire This Girl
Chapter Five 171
Women and Business: Negotiating the Culture
Chapter Six 223
Women in Arts Management: Out on Thin Ice
A Coda 245
You Aren't What You Do
Index 247
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Remarkable Voices
Agee, Mary Cunningham, Founder and President, The Nurturing
Network, Carmel, CA 76
Agosti, Deborah, Judge, Reno, NV 98
Anderson, Susan, WBBM-TV, Chicago, IL 142
Arsht, Roxanna, Judge, Wilmington, DE 96
Avery, Byllye Y., Founder, National Black Women's Health Project,
Atlanta, GA 72
Balser, Barbara, President, Management Compensation Group, Inc.,
Atlanta, GA 176
Barnes, Teveia Rose, Esq., Associate General Counsel and Senior
Vice President, Bank of America National Trust and Savings
Association, New York, NY 131
Belton, Sharon Sayles, Mayor of Minneapolis, MN 33
Berglin, Linda, State Senator, Minnesota State Legislature 25, 50
Bickett, Mary Kay, Executive Director for the Texas Center for the
Judiciary, Austin, TX 108
Bogart, Anne, Director of the Saratoga International Theatre Institute,
Saratoga Springs, NY 231
Born, Brooksley, Esq., Partner, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C.
118
Braver, Rita, White House Correspondent, CBS News 142
Bunda, Sue, Executive Producer, CNN and Co. 166
Campbell, Nancy Duff, Esq., Co-President, National Women's Law
Center, Washington, D.C. 116
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Coleman, Maxine, Vice President of Personnel and Organization,
KAL KAN Foods, Inc., Vernon, CA 217
Cranston, Mary C., Esq., Partner, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro LLP,
San Francisco, CA 133
Cromer, Diane, Political Consultant, Washington, D.C. 15, 29, 47
Danburg, Debra, State Representative, TX 28, 48
Davis, Susan, President and Founder of Capital Missions Company,
St. Charles, IL 175
De Bolt, Jo, Executive Director, MON Valley Initiative, Homestead,
PA 53
De Demonic, Patty, Founder and CEO, PDQ Personnell Services,
Inc., Los Angeles, CA; President of the National Association of
Women Business Owners 199495 186
DeLauro, Rosa, (D., CT) U.S. House of Representatives 1, 39
Dominguez, Cari, Under Secretary of Labor, Bush Administration 10
Domitrovich, Stephanie, Judge, Erie, PA 95, 134
Donnell, Caithlin, Esq., Founder, Colorado Women's Bar Association,
Denver, CO 119
Elliott, Kate Ford, Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania 105
Evans, Gail, Executive Vice President of CNN and Executive
Producer, Atlanta, GA 166
Fanning, Katherine (Kay) Woodruff, editor, The Christian Science
Monitor, editor and publisher Anchorage Daily News, Pulitzer Prize
159, 161
Fertel, Ruth, Founder and CEO, Ruth's Chris Steak House, New