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| History | | | | was the first woman to promote education in the |
| 1933 Washington, DC. Under Franklin D. Roosevelt, | | | | Arab nation- she backed education reforms. |
| Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold | | | | During the Persian Gulf War, she played a key |
| a cabinet post U.S. ( Secretary of Labor ). | | | | role in the relations between Arabs and |
| 1956 Monaco & USA.Grace Patricia Kelly, a former | | | | non-Muslims. |
| actress from Philadelphia ( PA ), became Princess | | | | 1981 Washington, DC. Sandra Day O'Connor was |
| of Monaco, a tiny nation in Europe. In the latter | | | | an Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court. |
| half of the Twentieth century, she supported | | | | 1987 Washington, DC. Ann D. McLaughlin obtained |
| many projects on tourism and culture-sports | | | | a post in the Government of President Ronald |
| events, cultural festivals in Montecarlo. In addition, | | | | Reagan. |
| she had carried out major diplomatic missions on | | | | 1989 Washington, DC. President George H.W. Bush |
| behalf of her country in the 70s. Thanks to her, | | | | appointed Elizabeth Hanford Dole Secretary of |
| Monaco now is one of Europe's most popular | | | | Labor. |
| destinations. Certainly she change the face of | | | | 1993 Washington, DC. America's Head of State Bill |
| Monaco. However, she was an opponent of | | | | Clinton appointed Janet Reno Attorney General. |
| feminist goals. "Women's natural role is to be a | | | | 1993 Bro0klyn, NY. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was |
| pillar of the family...Emancipation of women has | | | | sworn in as Justice of the Supreme Court. |
| made them lose their mystery", she said during | | | | 1997 Georgetown, Guyana. Janet Jagan is the |
| an interview with Eleanor Perry. In the early 1950s | | | | first American-born to win a presidential election in |
| America's Grace Kelly won an Oscar award for | | | | the world. American-born Janet Jagan, the widow |
| her role in "The Country Girl". "In the role of the | | | | of president Cheddi Jagan, put Guyana back on |
| wife who has tasted the last dregs of undiluted | | | | the world map when she, a former ambassador |
| bitterness and humiliation, Grace Kelly is almost | | | | to the United Nations, became the third South |
| haggard in spite of her prettiness", said Otis | | | | American female to be elected president. On the |
| Guernsey, a journalist from the New York Herald | | | | other hand, her socialist-oriented economic policies |
| Tribune. | | | | had failed to improve the national economy, one |
| 1977 -1981 Under Carter's Administration, there | | | | of the least-developed countries in the Western |
| were three female leaders: Juanita M. Kreps ( | | | | Hemisphere. She was born in Chicago, Illinois. |
| Secretary of Commerce, 1977-1979 ), Patricia | | | | 2009 Hillary Rodham Clinton, former First Lady |
| Roberts Harris ( Secretary of Health and Human | | | | and senator, became Secretary of State. She is |
| Services, 1979-1981 ) and Shirley Hufstedler ( | | | | an advocate of democracy and human |
| Secretary of Education, 1979-1981 ). | | | | development ( education ) in the States. |
| 1978 Amman, Jordan. Elizabeth Halaby, an | | | | America's actor Rob Reiner wrote about her: "In |
| American-born Jordan of half-Arab ancestry, was | | | | 1998 California took on Big Tobacco in a ballot |
| named Queen of the Hashemite Kingdom of | | | | initiative to fund early childhood programs. We |
| Jordan. Queen Noor - as she is generally | | | | were outspent and hope was fading fast. Then |
| called-was the fourth wife of King Hussein of | | | | Hillary showed up, not afraid of the attacks, the |
| Jordan. In the 1980s and 90s, she gained | | | | money and the influence of the tobacco industry..." |
| international recognition when she became an | | | | In 2008 Hillary made an even stronger run for the |
| activist on behalf of Arab women. Like Jihan | | | | Democratic presidential candidature, but her bid |
| Sadat (ex First Lady of Egypt), she was one of | | | | failed. |