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Other problems confront women in power. One is fine but two's a crowd seems to be an unspoken rule when the one wears a skirt. And those in authority have found ways to reward women for excluding others of their kind.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 24
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