Jeanne Shaheen Quotes
If we really care about impacting countries around the world and their economic futures, then what we need to do is empower women.
Shaheen, Jeanne. Interview by Steve Clemons. The Atlantic, Emerson Collective, 12 Apr. 2016.
Turkey, the only Islamic nation where women have equal rights, made huge developmental and reform strides immediately after Ataturk reformed Turkish society and gave women the vote, freed them from veils and chadors, educated them and gave them equal employment rights. Turkey moved from an impoverished 3rd world nation to a modern industrialized democracy.
This observation has never been really taken seriously until the women’s movement stimulated historical and sociological studies to test such a hypothesis. More and more people are finding that Tocqueville may have been right on this point albeit still not a majority of scholarly opinion.
Cynthia Jeanne Shaheen is an American politician and retired educator serving as the senior United States senator from New Hampshire since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first female U.S. senator in New Hampshire's history, the first elected female governor of New Hampshire and the first woman elected as both a governor and a U.S. senator, with the junior senator from New Hampshire and former governor of the state Maggie Hassan being the second woman to have occupied both of those roles.