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Africa: America's Glass Ceiling Remains, But the Path for Women Leaders is Clearer Than Ever
allAfrica, 11 November 2024
This election didn't make Kamala Harris America's first female president, but what her campaign achieved reaches far beyond the vote count. As the former president of Liberia and… Read more »
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Africa: Kamala Harris, Yellen Shatter Glass Ceilings - but Global Elite Boys Club Remains
The Conversation Africa, 25 November 2020
Janet Yellen may soon become the first woman to lead the Treasury Department, about six years after shattering another glass ceiling at the top of the Federal Reserve. Read more »
America's Glass Ceiling Remains - But Women Leadership 'In Reach'
For millions of women and girls worldwide, seeing U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris reach as far as she did in the recent race for the White House matters, writes former Liberian president and founder of the EJS Presidential Center for Women and Development Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Sirleaf, writing exclusively for allAfrica, believes Harris' run signals that the idea of a woman president isn't a distant dream; it's a "possibility within reach".
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