02-04-2014, 01:47 PM
(02-04-2014, 12:35 PM)burger link Wrote:[quote author=TreeWeird link=topic=9503.msg83174#msg83174 date=1391539107]I glanced through the list, and I was going to write something like "we'll need about 60 straight years of women speakers to get to an even sex ratio."
Here is a list by year:
http://library.stanford.edu/spc/universi...-addresses
But then I counted. We'd actually need 101 straight years. Ouch.
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My class had a woman speaker Carla Hills, Jerry Ford's secretary of housing & urban development. We all got sunburned listening to her in Frost Amphitheater. I can't remember a single word of her speech, but my mom remarked afterward that it was impressive.
"To the press alone, checkered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression." ~ James Madison
