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![]() It started me thinking about the way women view other women’s success or failure. I was shocked because the sharpest, most vitriolic comments were made by women. “When Yentl came out, I was most anxious for women to review the movie - that is, until I read the reviews. Streisand denounced what she called “women versus women.” During a Women in Film awards luncheon, she said she saw the movie as a “celebration of women.” She emphasized the importance of women working together instead of resenting peers’ success. She became the first woman to produce, direct, co-write and star in a major motion picture, “Yentl.” It was a movie she’d wanted to make for more than a decade. During my career in news, it was rare to come across someone who was so ambitious or just plain mean that she wanted to tear other women down.īut it happens, even to the best of us. And now that I’m in job search, I’m humbled and sometimes bowled over by the support women are giving me. Others were less formal, but no less valuable. Over the years I’ve participated in a number of initiatives geared toward women building one another up. I knew how good it felt to be trusted as an employee, and I wanted people under my watch to know I had faith in them. I wanted employees to know I was behind them to help them be their best. As my career progressed, I tried to emulate her and other female managers I’d known who encouraged me and gave me opportunities. As a brand-new manager, that really meant a lot. She expressed confidence in me, and said she looked forward to her department collaborating with mine. It was from a female executive at CNN, congratulating me on a promotion I’d just received. Recently, in some pandemic-induced organizing, I found a note I’ve been holding onto for almost 15 years. The overwhelming majority of women in my sphere are and always have been kind, helpful, supportive and - in the cases of the bosses among them - empowering. ![]() Whether they are helping poor people in our community get back on their feet with dignity, teaching kids at home or in schools during a pandemic, plugging in from home or the newsroom and control room to keep the world informed, cooking yet another meal because it’s too dicey to go to restaurants, making sure my family and I stay healthy, ringing up my purchases while wearing a mask and standing on their feet all day, keeping their businesses going strong, delivering my packages and takeout, or participating in dozens of Zoom calls to stay connected… women are showing just how amazing they are. ![]() Yet, her active participation in several Mideast peace attempts - both between Israel and the Palestinians at Camp David and between Israel and Syria in Shepherdstown, West Virginia - and her mission to North Korea led others to believe she might be too willing to negotiate.įrom running after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in a Parisian driveway to stop him from walking out of peace talks to listening to Assad rant for hours about Syria’s rightful place in the region and admiring a surreal mass gymnastics performance beside Kim Jong Il in a packed Pyongyang stadium, Albright was never embarrassed or afraid to take diplomacy to the limits.Women’s History Month seems like a great time to appreciate women I admire, and those who are wonderful to work or volunteer with. "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it,” she said in comments that remain anathema. Having made her case, she turned around and flew back to India, rejoining the presidential visit in Mumbai.Īlbright drew criticism in left-wing and humanitarian circles for her support of punishing sanctions imposed on Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s rule, telling an interviewer once that the humanitarian suffering that many blamed on the sanctions had been an unfortunate but unavoidable side effect of implementing U.S. Once, in the middle of a Clinton state visit to India, Albright broke off from the trip in Delhi to fly nearly 12 hours to Geneva, Switzerland, with a refueling stop in Crete, to deliver a 15-minute speech excoriating China's human rights record before what was then known as the U.N. ![]()
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