Panelist and Discussion with
Shari Miles-Cowen, psychologist
Elizabeth O'Gorek, journalist
Marjorie Lightman, historian
March 19, 2026, 7PM

 
Women are more than half the population. They vote in larger numbers than men and they are well organized. They have been able to defy convention and custom to change laws from suffrage to Title 9. Why have they not been able to elect a woman president? 

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The panel will offer historical and psychological insights to better understand the complexities and pressures of custom, class, and race, and of conditioning, threats and fears that underlay women’s attitudes to other women and political leadership.