Leading ladies
Subtitle: American trailblazers
By: Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780061138249
Subjects: Women -- United States -- Biography.; Women -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Presents biographical portraits of pioneering American women who overcame difficult obstacles to gain entry into male-dominated arenas, from medicine and politics to business and the media.
Table of contents: title: The good fight : women in the military; title: First ladies : the hardest unpaid job in the world; title: If there's a book you want to read : novelists and journalists; title: A dream of the future : women's suffrage and civil rights; title: Everything I discovered was new : women in medicine and public health; title: Lifting the veil of nature : the Nobel Prize in science; title: Curing social misery : the settlement house and peace movements; title: Commitment overcomes adversity : the making of leaders.