![]() Maddie must have been a Puff as well, and possibly has a career in law. We also learn that Paris has an older cousin named Maddie who interned at the Supreme Court with the assistance of Sandra Day O’Connor. I presume the ludicrousness of the idea is what gave it appeal as a joke. I think she was just too tough and sensible to ever bother about table allocation in the dining hall, or gossiping about Homecoming. And even at university, she didn’t join a sorority, as they didn’t exist at Stanford at that time. In 1946, aged 16, she enrolled at Stanford University, where she gained a BA in Economics in 1950, so she was far beyond the world of high school sororities by that stage. Austin High School in El Paso (rather like Rory going to Hartford). For her final year of schooling, she took a 32-mile bus trip every day to attend Stephen F. She was born in Texas and lived on a cattle ranch, attending a private girl’s school in El Paso. In real life, Sandra Day O’Connor could not have gone to Chilton or been a Puff. She retired in 2005, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama in 2009. O’Connor most often voted with the conservative bloc of the Supreme Court, and was sometimes named as the most powerful woman in the world. Prior to that, she was a judge and elected Republican leader in the Arizona Senate, the first female majority leader in a state senate. ![]() Sandra Day O’Connor (born 1930) is a retired attorney and politician who served as the first female associate judge in the US Supreme Court from 1981 to 2006. She was Puffed in 1946, became the president in ’47, and in ’48 she actually moved the group to the very table you sat at today. My cousin Maddie got her internship at the Supreme Court because of Sandra Day O’Connor. As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we'll all be better off for it.PARIS: And the connection you make with the Puffs, they last the rest of your life. As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. We have a long way to go before women are on equal footing with men.''Īdditional quote, from Kaye 1996 cited above:įor both men and women the first step in getting power is to become visible to others, and then to put on an impressive show. "will have a female president but we are not there yet." "Male judges are more likely to believe the sob story from female defendants," she said, pausing for effect. "send an important signal" that sexism will not be tolerated. "There is no doubt that my appointment to the Supreme Court was a signal of hope to women throughout America that their dream of sharing in the power base might be fulfilled." Our clients just would not accept them.'' When she asked about hiring women, his response was: ''We don't expect to ever hire a woman lawyer. The reasons for the "paucity" of women in executive positions stem from "blatant sex discrimination and the widespread belief that women are unfit for power positions." Women make up only 6 percent of all partners in the nation's law firms, only 16 percent of all doctors, only 7 percent of engineers, only 6 percent of news media executives, and historically, only 2 percent of Congress. She said women are excluded from the upper reaches of almost every profession. "Only a short time ago, the subject of this conference would have been considered an oxymoron." Quotes from a Chicago Tribune article on the talk include: ![]()
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