The Global Tide of Women Rising

Speaker: 
Kathleen Parker
 
12 Nov 2015
 
7:30 PM
 
Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building, Iowa State Center

Kathleen Parker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post, for which she writes a nationally syndicated column twice weekly on politics and culture. She is also a political analyst for MSNBC and a regular panelist on NBC's Meet the Press. A columnist since 1987, she has worked for five newspapers and has written for several magazines, including The Weekly Standard, TIME, Newsweek, and Fortune Small Business. Parker is currently the most widely syndicated columnist in the United States, appearing in more than 500 newspapers and with a readership of approximately 80 million people. She is also a contributor to the online magazine, The Daily Beast, and is the author of the book Save the Males: Why Men Matter, Why Women Should Care. Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics


Parker joined [i]The Washington Post[/i] in 2006. She is also a consulting faculty member at the Buckley School of Public Speaking in Camden, South Carolina, and serves on the board of contributors for USA TODAY's forum page, part of the newspaper's opinion section. Describing herself as "slightly to the right of center" politically, Parker addresses politics, culture and contemporary issues in her writing and speaking engagements.