Women of Note
Women Command Attention in Government, Hollywood and Broadcasting in 2009
Long time box office favorites Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep both starred in multiple hits raising the age bar for women in Hollywood. And in the broadcasting field, sixty-four year old Diane Sawyer will take her place in the anchor seat at ABC World News, making her the second woman to be sole anchor of the evening news in the United States. more »
Woman of Note, Heroism Award Recipient: Lynne Tracy, Consular Officer in Peshawar, Pakistan
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented a Heroism award to the US Consular Official: "As Lynne was being driven to work, gunmen launched an attack on her, shooting out her car’s two front tires and leaving the vehicle riddled with bullets. Thanks to her driver and her bodyguard’s quick thinking, Lynne escaped. She returned to post later that day, believing it was important to inform the staff about what had happened, what it meant for the mission, and to think through their next steps as a community." more »
Brilliant Women, 18th Century Bluestockings
They got their comical name - 'Bluestockings' - when another guest, the botanist Benjamin Stillingfleet (1702-71), was welcomed at one of Elizabeth Montagu's salons even though he had arrived absent-mindedly wearing the blue woollen stockings normally worn by working men, instead of the more formal white silk." more »
Woman of Note: Sheila Bair, head of the FDIC
Robert Frost liked to say that a banker is someone who gives you an umbrella when the sun is shining and takes it away when it starts to rain. Well, we set out to prove that adage wrong at IndyMac bank. During the time we were conservator, we restructured loans for over 13,000 families to keep them in their homes. more »