This volume is a true adventure story that mixes personal anecdote and fascinating facts to bring women's recent political history to life, concluding with guidance to inspire a new generation of women risk takers. Harriett Woods argues that it will take more than a woman president to assure women effective power in the next millennium. Stepping Up to Power looks backward in order to move women forward; Woods believes that getting more women to enter the political pipeline will take both their commitment and a knowledge of the past. The author uses her own life story to recall how women...