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Women in Washington - The ‘Hillary Effect’

by Aisha Gawad

1/18/10 - 3:14 PM

By Aisha Gawad
January 18, 2010

Washington has long been a boy’s club. It used to be that the only women present at state dinners were spouses of ambassadors and politicians. But things are slowly changing. More women are finding their way into power in a phenomenon the Washington Post dubs ”The Hillary Effect.”

Washington has more female ambassadors now than ever. While only 25 out of 182 of the ambassadors in Washington are women, that is still five times the number of women serving in the 1990s. It seems as if the boy’s club is slowly opening up, and many people contribute this to the visibility of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who of course follows Madeline Albright and Condoleezza Rice. Because of her stints as first lady and presidential candidate, Clinton is perhaps the best-known and most-respected woman in international politics. Her fame makes it permissible, and maybe even trendy, for other countries to appoint female ambassadors.

It is encouraging to see Arab nations like Oman and Bahrain appoint women to such high-powered positions. Hunaina Sultan Al-Mughairy, Oman’s ambassador to Washington, is the first female ambassador from an Arab country. And Houda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo of Bahrain is not only her country’s first female ambassador to Washington but also the first Jewish ambassador from any Arab nation. These Arab women are not only speaking for themselves, they are speaking for their entire countries. They serve as visible representatives of the diversity of Arab women and cultures.

The other female ambassadors come from India, Colombia, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Croatia, Kyrgyzstan, Singapore, Nauru, eleven African nations and four Caribbean ones.

It is comforting to me to know that these women are working in Washington, even if they still have to struggle to break through the glass ceiling and combat stereotypes that their male colleagues are almost certainly going to place on them. If there are five times more female ambassadors now, then I bet Washington makes five times more sense.

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Keywords: Women in Washington, Hillary Clinton, the Hillary Effect, Hunaina Sultan Al-Mughairy, Ebrahim Nonoo, women in politics, Arab women in politics

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By Aisha Gawad January 18, 2010 Washington has long been a boy’s club. It used to be that the only women present at state dinners were spouses of ambassadors and politicians. But things are slowly changing. More women are finding their way into power in a phenomenon the Washington Post dubs ”The Hillary Effect.” Washington has more female ambassadors now than ever. While only 25 out of 182 of the ambassadors in Washington are women, that is still five times the number of women serving in the 1990s. It seems as if the boy’s club is slowly opening up, and many people contribute this to the visibility of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who of course follows Madeline Albright and Condoleezza Rice. Because of her stints as first lady and presidential candidate, Clinton is perhaps the best-known and most-respected woman in international politics. Her fame makes it permissible, and maybe even trendy, for other countries to appoint female ambassadors. It is encouraging to see Arab nations like Oman and Bahrain appoint women to such high-powered positions. Hunaina Sultan Al-Mughairy, Oman’s ambassador to Washington, is the first female ambassador from an Arab country. And Houda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo of Bahrain is not only her country’s first female ambassador to Washington but also the first Jewish ambassador from any Arab nation. These Arab women are not only speaking for themselves, they are speaking for their entire countries. They serve as visible representatives of the diversity of Arab women and cultures. The other female ambassadors come from India, Colombia, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Croatia, Kyrgyzstan, Singapore, Nauru, eleven African nations and four Caribbean ones. It is comforting to me to know that these women are working in Washington, even if they still have to struggle to break through the glass ceiling and combat stereotypes that their male colleagues are almost certainly going to place on them. If there are five times more female ambassadors now, then I bet Washington makes five times more sense. Photo provided by PRNewswire http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/women_in_washington_the_hillary_effect-nid315986164/

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