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Jeane Kirkpatrick: Diplomat and Mother
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CURRENT ISSUES
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8 / 1998 |
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Robert R. Selle
Robert R. Selle is an editor in the Current Issues section of
The World & I. |
But the same woman turned her back on the world of work for nearly 14 years to raise three sons, making her just as much a hero to upholders of traditional roles for women.
"I dropped out of the workforce for almost nine years, and then kept my career in low gear for another four to five years after that," Jeane Kirkpatrick says in an interview.
"I felt it was important for my children--they're very dear to me--so I stayed at home," says the former UN envoy, who served at the world body from 1981 to 1985 and who now is a professor of government at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank.
Kirkpatrick believes that "it made sense to give priority to the kids" while her husband, Evron, who was a professor of government and for many years executive director of the American Political Science Association, supported the family. Her husband died three years ago.
"A lot of people have asked me over the years whether it bothered me to think how much I might have achieved in those years if I hadn't stayed at home devoting myself to my wife/family roles," Kirkpatrick says. "My answer is, I think it made me stronger to stay home, as a matter of fact. It didn't make me weaker. It made me stronger.
"I have no regrets. I'd certainly do it again."
Kirkpatrick was born and raised in Duncan, a small town on
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