Document Type
Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Madeline Albright must have been shocked when a comment she made in early 2016 went viral—for the wrong reasons. Albright was speaking in support of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign when by her own account, “I delivered a line I have uttered a thousand times to applause, nodding heads and laughter: ‘There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other’” (Albright). According to the former secretary of state, she has been repeating this call to arms since 1990; that is to say, she has spent a full 25 years publicly arguing for the importance of women’s collaboration. Albright knows from lived experience, as do many, that women will only continue to make progress—and to sustain the progress already made—when they help one another in the workplace, in particular, but in life more generally. The “saving grace” for women in a competitive, patriarchal, capitalist society comes from women’s “willingness to lift one another up” (Albright).
Repository Citation
Gronewold, Laura, and Marlowe Daly-Galeano. "The Work is Never Done: Women's Collaboration in the Workplace from Louisa May Alcott to Contemporary Chick-Lit." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 17, no. 2, 2017, pp. 1–33. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol17/iss2/3