4:29 am Tue April 9, 2013  Britain's Only Female Prime Minister:
Margaret Thatcher  Originally published on Tue April 9, 2013
9:14 am    Now, as we consider the legacy of Margaret Thatcher,
the question arises about her significance as the only woman to
serve as British prime minister, and the first woman to lead a
government of a major Western nation. Kim Campbell, who briefly
served as Canada's first woman prime minister in the early
1990s, put it this way last night on the "PBS NewsHour."   PRIME
MINISTER KIM CAMPBELL: But she really just, I think, opened up a
space for women in other countries to be credible as leaders,
that there were things you didn't have to compromise anymore,
that this notion that you could not be tough and still be
feminine, that there would be somehow some way that you weren't
really a woman if you wanted to lead a country, or if you were
prepared to send to people into battle. It just wasn't the case,
and she just established that once and for all.  GREENE: That
sentiment was echo