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Female President!
Women Can Make It Happen |
Below are excerpts
from articles written over the last 10 years
about Margaret's campaign for President of the United States
The
Miami Herald - March 22, 1994
By Tananarive Due
Ann
Moliver Ruben, a former Barry University instructor, printed
T-shirts with the Hank Ketcham character and the words Someday
a woman will be PRESIDENT!. Then took them to Dade County
schools to gauge students' reactions. She had girls interview
boys ages 14 to 16.
The findings: Even in 1994, Dennis the Menace isn't alone
when he flaunts his No Girls Allowed sign at his clubhouse.
At one school, 36 percent of the boys said no way to a woman
in the White House - except with the title "First Lady"
attached.
"The girls who fiished the survey were sad," says Ruben...coordinator
of Partnership Way Center of Miami, a small organization
dedicated to promoting gender equality. "It was clear that
if they're going to do anything, they'll have to do it themselves.
They can't count on boys who grow up to be men to help them.
Last March, Ruben surveyed 1,500 elementary school students
about whether they believed a woman could be president.
Nearly half of the students, male and female, said they
believed only boys could grow up to be president.
So Ruben distributed to schools 1,000 copies of a book for
first-graders she wrote, called How I Grew Up Feeling Some
Day I Could Be President of the United States. |
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