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A FEMALE PRESIDENT? You can find women leaders in Ireland and the Phillipines, but stateside, nocando. Not yet. Some might say that's because pop culture doesn't even give us any possibilities to consider. Well, that's slowly a-changing, too.

On NBC's The West Wing, Jimmy Smits and Alan Alda dominate the race for the fictional White House while Mel Harris is teased as a possible female addition to the campaign.
ABC, meanwhile, has tapped Geena Davis to star as the first female president in a new drama, Commander in Chief. If the show makes the fall schedule, Davis would join Mary McDonnell, who already leads the U.S. (and all humankind) on SciFi's revamped Battlestar Galactica.
"I think it's great,'' said Marie C. Wilson, president of the nonprofit White House Project, which aims to have a woman lead the real West Wing. "If you can see it on television, it makes an enormous difference,'' Wilson said yesterday.

Continue reading my story: President Geena? ABC hails the idea (Boston Herald)



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