Bibliograph

Off the sidelines, raise your voice, change the world, Kirsten Gillibrand with Elizabeth Weil

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Label

Off the sidelines, raise your voice, change the world, Kirsten Gillibrand with Elizabeth Weil

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-194)

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Off the sidelines

Oclc number

883836274

Responsibility statement

Kirsten Gillibrand with Elizabeth Weil

Sub title

raise your voice, change the world

Summary

Off the Sidelines is a playbook for women who want to step up, whether in Congress or the boardroom or the local PTA. If women were fully represented in politics, Gillibrand says, national priorities would shift to issues that directly impact them: affordable daycare, paid family medical leave, and equal pay. Pulling back the curtain on Beltway politics, she speaks candidly about her legislative successes (securing federally funded medical care for 9/11 first responders, repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell) and her crushing disappointments (failing by five votes to pass a bill protecting survivors of sexual assault in the military)

Table Of Contents

I'm one of Polly's girls -- From A to B, with detours -- So what if the cows outnumber your supporters? -- The best lobbyist I ever met was a twelve-year-old girl -- Let's clean up the sticky floor -- Ambition is not a dirty word -- Now we're yours -- "You need to be beautiful again" and other unwanted advice -- Be kind -- My real inner circle -- A time such as this -- Get in the game

Target audience

adult

Classification

Contributor