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Title:

Outstanding women in public administration : leaders, mentors, and pioneers / edited by Claire L. Felbinger and Wendy A. Haynes.

Publisher:

M.E. Sharpe,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xii, 184 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women in public life--United States.--Biography.
Women in the civil service--United States--Biography.
Women in politics--United States.--Biography.

Other Authors:

Felbinger, Claire L.
Haynes, Wendy A., 1949-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

A different way of serving, a different way of seeing -- The amazing Miss Burchfield / Mary E. Guy -- Josephine Goldmark : champion of scientific management and social reform / Hindy Lauer Schachter -- Mary Livermore : a legacy of caring and cooperative womanhood in service to the state / Patricia M. Shields -- Feminine pioneer : Nellie Tayloe Ross, first woman governor / Teva J. Scheer -- Pioneers in the upper echelons of the federal government -- Madame secretary Frances Perkins / Meredith A. Newman -- Patricia Roberts Harris: a pioneer champion of civil rights and social justice / Elizabeth G. Williams -- Into the twenty-first century : more women of courage and substance -- Naomi B. Lynn : painting a rich canvas / Linda K. Richter -- Maxine Kurtz : knocking down bars of the invisible cage / Van R. Johnston.

ISBN:

9780765613684 (cloth : alk. paper)
0765613689 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54001373

LCCN:

2003028135

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)