Word: conway
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...education, Jill Ker Conway was named the first woman president of Smith, the nation's largest women's liberal arts college (2,468 students...
...thought comes close to the theory?less prevalent now than a few years ago?that women in positions of leadership would somehow humanize public affairs and gentle down the truculent, aggressive style practiced by men. It is a sexist notion, attributing superior virtues to women. As Smith's Jill Conway says, "There are lots of inhumane women in the world." (Two women who went far to prove that point were Lynette ["Squeaky"] Fromme and Sarah Jane Moore; both made attempts on the life of President Ford...
...JILL CONWAY: From Outback...
Even while she spent her childhood herding sheep on the family ranch in Australia's Outback, Jill Ker Conway "took deep pleasure in ideas and wanted learning more than anything else." Now Conway, 41, brings that zeal to her job as the first woman president of Smith College, the alma mater of such feminists as Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem...
After graduating first in her class from the University of Sydney, Conway applied for a job in the Australian Foreign Service but was turned down for looking "too feminine." She considered a career in modeling, thought better and headed to the U.S.?and Harvard, "where I was at last taken seriously as a scholar." After writing a doctoral dissertation on "Women Reformers and American Culture, 1870 to 1930," she became an assistant to fellow Historian John Conway, whom she married and followed to Toronto. There he taught at York University and she at the University of Toronto...