Event Listing - Literary Arts

Thu Mar 6

Dee Dee Myers explains Why Women Should Rule the World

Location	Date and Time
San Francisco Locations
The Commonwealth Club - San Francisco 595 Market Street, 2nd floor San Francisco, CA 94105 map district: Union Square/San Francisco Centre	Thu Mar 6 (12:00 PM)
Berkeley Locations
Cody's Books 1730 Fourth Street Berkeley, CA 94710 map district: Berkeley (West)	Thu Mar 6 (7:00 PM)

Description

When Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he named Dee Dee Myers as his press secretary, the first woman and, at 31, one of the youngest people ever to hold the job. But as Myers discusses in her first book, the "dream job" wasn't quite what she had imagine. "Suddenly, I found myself staring down the barrel of a predicament that I knew was all too common among women: responsibility without corresponding authority," she says. And she struggled. Now Myers paints an honest, provocative and highly entertaining portrait of women in public life today, and argues that the increased presence and power of women in public has already generated enormous, positive change - but that getting to a place where equality is not a slogan but a way of life will demand more. Myers is currently a political commentator for MSNBC and contributing editor for Vanity Fair. 7:00 PM at Cody's Fourth Street (seating beginning at 6 PM)