Eleanor Rosevelt

Growing up in India, as I did, one never hears about female elected officials of United States. We had our own female leaders to study that not much was taught about female leaders of other countries. But among the exception was Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of one the greatest American President. Though, she was the wife of Franklin Roosevelt, she was not known for being his wife. She, as I remember, more than any other woman, 'typified... the realizaton of the dreams of the female Crusaders of the 19th century who threw off the restrictions of the Victorian age.' So when I had the opp…