![]() ![]() But, on reflection, I realized my choices in considering this news were to despair, or to persevere. Then, I got even angrier as I remembered that she had previously been twice confirmed by the Senate. “Unfair,” “unjust,” “sexist,” were the words I said to myself when I read that Raskin had withdrawn her nomination. It looks likely that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be confirmed to the Supreme Court-the first Black woman to do so. Roosevelt and confirmed as Director of the U.S. This first occurred in 1933 when Nellie Tayloe Ross was nominated by President Franklin D. ![]() Importantly, it has been less than a century since any woman was nominated to any post requiring Senate confirmation. Bush was rejected by a bipartisan set of Senators for her perceived lack of qualifications and lack of honesty. Longer ago, in the mid-1990s, Harriet Miers’s nomination to the Supreme Court by President George W. Senator Joe Manchin declined to support Tanden, just as he declined to support Raskin. This first happened in the case of Neera Tanden’s nomination to Director of the Office of Management and Budget. There has been bipartisan rejection of two of President Biden’s women nominees requiring Senate confirmation. In Raskin’s words, opposition to her nomination was due to reluctance to acknowledge, “the economic complications of climate change and the toll it has placed, and will continue to place, on Americans.” As to not giving up, Raskin expressed regret that the US Senate failed to fully consider her qualifications: that was it. Standing up for your principals is what matters most.Ĭonsider the ostensible reason for Raskin’s rejection by various Senators.You may not win every battle, but that’s no reason to give up. ![]() Throughout, the workbook makes plain two important truths: It is a workbook for planning your path to public and political leadership, whether to elected or appointed office, or to organizational leadership, or to feminist advocacy. To put my thoughts in context, I draw from my book, Make Herstory Your Story: Your Guided Journal to Justice Every Day for Every Woman. So, as we are well into the 2022 campaign season−perhaps you’re even traversing your own path to public leadership−I’m sharing the conclusion I draw from Raskin’s experience. No matter, as this case makes clear, when a presidential nominee is of the same political party as the Senate majority. Earlier this year, Sarah Bloom Raskin’s withdrawal of her nomination to the Federal Reserve board of directors reminded me that the ground isn’t level for women seeking public leadership, nor are the steps up the leadership ladder easily traversed. ![]()
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