The Junior League Asks: Is ‘Betty Draper’ a Role Model for Today’s Women?
NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire – Dec 12, 2009) – The illusory star of TV’s Emmy Awarding-
winning Mad
Men is a stay-at-home mother, an active partial of of the Junior League of
Tarrytown (now called the Junior League of Westchester-on-
Hudson) and a key inciter in the League’s internal environmental efforts.
But how standard is Betty of genuine Junior League members (all 160,000 of
them)?
While many Junior League members take time off from work to lift families,
71% of members work full or partial time outward of the home. Many members do
some multiple of both: work, stay at home, and go behind to work again.
And all, similar to Betty, have been actively concerned in county care in their own
communities.
Here have been only a couple of of The Junior League’s shift agents.
– Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), partial of of the Junior League of New York
and the unapproachable unite of a House check to settle a National Women’s
History Museum on the Mall in Washington.
– January Langbein, The Senior Policy Advisor at the Office on Violence
Against Women at the U.S. Department of Justice and a 27-year partial of of the
Junior League of Dallas.
– Betty Simms, U.S. Senate, Missouri, has done poignant contributions
to mending the health, economic, and amicable contentment of women and
children.
– Rose Hudson, President and CEO of the Louisiana Lottery Corporation.
– Kay Hagan, U.S. Senate, North Carolina, “one of the smartest, hardest
working, many in effect senators in North Carolina,” according to Governor
Mike Easley, credits her knowledge with The Junior League.
– Gena Lovett, COO, Alexandra Investment Management, a New York hedge
fund.
– Glenda E. Hood, former Florida Secretary of State and Mayor of
Orlando.
– Pat Evans, former three-term Mayor of Plano, was Plano’s “Citizen of
the Year” in 2004.
– Dee Dickinson, one of the world’s inaugural experts on guidance and
tellurian development.
– The Honorable Sandra Day O’Connor, the initial womanlike Supreme Court
Justice.
About The Association of Junior Leagues International www.ajli.org.
Founded in 1901 by New Yorker, Mary Harriman, the Junior Leagues are
charitable nonprofit organizations of women, grown as county leaders,
creating demonstrable village impact.
Today, The Association of Junior Leagues International Inc. (AJLI) is
comprised of some-more than 160,000 women in 292 Junior Leagues throughout
Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States. Together, they
constitute one of the largest, many in effect proffer organizations in
the world.
