| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 53353 |
| QUOTATION: | ... in the minds of search committees there is the lingering question: Can she manage the football coach? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Donna E. Shalala (b. 1941), U.S. educator and government official. As quoted in the New York Times, p. C4 (October 20, 1994).
At this time, Shalala was the U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, as well as the former Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin. She was speaking of the reluctance of University President search committees to select women candidates. |
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