Georgetown’s Favorite Professors Discuss Gender

  • Rebecca Hinkhouse

The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security asked some of Georgetown’s favorite professors about the role of women in defense, diplomacy and development. This is what they said:

“Diplomacy depends on the ability to develop relationships and to write effectively and persuasively to multiple audiences on policy issues. Whether that is cables from the field to capitals or within the bureaucracy to the Secretary, I figured out early that what I wrote did not go in pink ink. It was in black and white like everyone else’s. It was the quality of the policy writing, the intellectual skills behind it, the professionalism it reflected, that was important, not my gender. It was gender neutral.”

–Ambassador Barbara Bodine, Ambassador to Yemen (1997-2001) and Director of Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy

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