A Woman's World?

With the election race heating up a lot of attention is focusing on gender and politics. Will Hillary be our first woman president? We'll have to wait and see but it is predicted to be a close primary election.

Many people don't know that Nancy Pelosi is the highest ranking female in our national government today. She is the Speaker of the House and in line to become the head of the U.S. government should anything happen to the President. The presidential succession order is as follows: Vice President, Speaker of the House, President pro Tempore of the Senate, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury,...


The highest ranking female had at one time been Madeline Albright who had served as Clinton's Secretary of State. She was appointed in 1997. During a question and answer period during a speech she gave in 2004, someone had asked "Was your tenure of secretary of state an isolated one-time-only occurrence, or can we expect another woman or women to represent us internationally as secretary of state sometime in, say, the next 20 years?" One-time ocurence it was not. On January 26, 2005, Condolezza Rice was appointed Secretary of State.