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Mary S. Hartman

Mary S. Hartman, a historian, is founding director and senior scholar at Rutgers' Institute for Women's Leadership and a Tucson public voices fellow with The OpEd Project. Her books include "Talking Leadership: Conversations with Powerful Women" (ed.), "Victorian Murderesses" and "The Household and the Making of History."

Mary S. Hartman's Latest Articles

This Women’s Movement, Now, Is for Everyone

By Mary S. Hartman ● Arts & Culture ● March 8, 2015

In a first for a State of the Union address, President Obama put a central focus on the role of women in the economy. But his message about needing child care as a national economic priority wasn’t just for women. It was for everybody.

Rambo-Style Campaigns Crack Up the Young

By Mary S. Hartman ● Uncategorized ● October 27, 2004

The high-testosterone, low-substance quality of the presidential campaign makes young people just laugh. And that could mean that the time for women’s leadership–which seems so distant this year–could be sooner than it appears.