A wonderful essay about the growth of women in places of responsibility. The educated women of the 1960s raised their babies and went to school. They are the founders of the path of success for women in the USA.
It was a political movement and without it women would still be lacking in presence in our most important places of responsibility.
August 4, 2016
By Linda Greenhouse
...President Franklin D. Roosevelt (click here) had named one, Florence Ellinwood Allen, followed 15 years later by President Harry Truman’s appointment of the second, Burnita Shelton Matthews. Thirteen more years passed before President John F. Kennedy named Sarah Tilghman Hughes to the Federal District Court bench in Dallas; the next year, on Nov. 22, 1963, Judge Hughes entered the history books when she administered the presidential oath of office to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. President Johnson named three women to federal courts. Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford named one apiece. President Carter took the revolutionary step of naming 40 — roughly one in six of his 259 judicial appointments, enabled by Congress’s expansion of the federal bench in 1978 by nearly one-third, adding 151 judgeships with the expectation that they would be filled promptly. (President Obama has managed to get 138 women confirmed to the federal courts; they make up 42 percent of his successful judicial nominations.)...
It was a political movement and without it women would still be lacking in presence in our most important places of responsibility.
August 4, 2016
By Linda Greenhouse
...President Franklin D. Roosevelt (click here) had named one, Florence Ellinwood Allen, followed 15 years later by President Harry Truman’s appointment of the second, Burnita Shelton Matthews. Thirteen more years passed before President John F. Kennedy named Sarah Tilghman Hughes to the Federal District Court bench in Dallas; the next year, on Nov. 22, 1963, Judge Hughes entered the history books when she administered the presidential oath of office to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. President Johnson named three women to federal courts. Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford named one apiece. President Carter took the revolutionary step of naming 40 — roughly one in six of his 259 judicial appointments, enabled by Congress’s expansion of the federal bench in 1978 by nearly one-third, adding 151 judgeships with the expectation that they would be filled promptly. (President Obama has managed to get 138 women confirmed to the federal courts; they make up 42 percent of his successful judicial nominations.)...
