FRANCES ELIZABETH WILLIS
Subtitle: Up The Foreign Service Ladder -- To The Summit : Despite the Limitations of Her Sex, May 20, 1899 Metropolis, Illinois, July 10, 1983 Redlands, California
By: Nicholas J. Willis
Contributors: Willis, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1899-1983
Publisher: [Nicholas J. Willis]
Published: 2013
Place of publication: California?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 469
ISBN-13: 9780578108124
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Diplomats; Biography; Women diplomats; Ambassadors; Women ambassadors; Diplomatic and consular service; Foreign relations; Diplomatic relations
Other titles: Despite the Limitations of Her Sex
Description: "Frances E. Willis was the first woman to make a career of the U.S. Foreign Service. She started at the bottom of the ladder as a Foreign Service Officer-Unclassified and ended up at the top as a Career Ambassador, serving ambassador to three countries. How she did it in the face of massive gender bias in both the State Department and the Foreign Service, breaking glass ceilings- and glass tables- along the way, is the subject of this biography"--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: Crisis in Washington; title: Early life; title: Foreign service school; title: The school play; title: The other women; title: First post: exiled to Chile; title: Sweden and diplomacy; title: Frances and her men; title: Belgium and the Germans; title: Frances and Claire; title: Disaster in the most catholic of countries, Spain; title: Crisis resolved; title: Cool in London; title: Marking time in Finland; title: Watches and onions in Switzerland; title: Norway with guts and grace; title: Frances and Julia; title: Finally the Far East: Ceylon; title: Redlands epilogue; title: Appendix 1. Foreign service history and its arcane lexicon; title: Appendix 2. Career summary, honors and awards.