Madeleine Kunin: Pearls, Politics and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead

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from Madeleine Kunin: Pearls, Politics and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead held on December 8, 2009

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1:04:47

Pearls, Politics and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead

Madeleine Kunin, Former U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland; Former Governor of Vermont; Author, Pearls, Politics and Power

The first woman elected governor of Vermont, Kunin held positions of power during the Bush Sr. and Clinton administrations, eventually taking her as a U.S. ambassador back to Switzerland, from which she fled with her family at the outbreak of World War II. She will share her views of the problems facing women in power in an insightful, candid discussion of what it means to become a leader.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on December 8, 2009

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