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Is the country ready for a female president?
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"It's time."

Question: Is the country ready for a female president?

Carla Katz:    I think it would be very interesting.  I think that certainly the time has come for that type of change – that women participate intensely in society at every level.  We parent.  We work.  We do everything that men do, and I think that it would change the character of our country.  Certainly many other countries have been led by women powerfully and successfully, and it’s time. 

Recorded on: February 8, 2008

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