SCOOPS Focuses on Strong Female Leaders

If Doug were currently producing SCOOPS, a news-slanted political cartoon strip popular in the 1970s, no doubt, President Barack Obama's Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, would attract his attention and satirist's eye.

Margaret Thatcher served in Parliament at the age of 43 as a Tory. Later, she became prime minister of the United Kingdom in May 1979, resigning in November 1990.

Golda Meir was elected prime minister of Israel on March 17, 1969 and served until 1974.

Queen Elizabeth II

(blog entries by Heidi Hutson)