Joni Evans | 03/17/2008 7:47 am

wOw Announces Winners to 'Women on Mt. Rushmore' Question of the Day

MARISA ACOCELLA MARCHETTO

Dear Friends:

Nearly 3,000 of you voted, and here are the winners of our first Question of the Day (Which four women would you like to see on Mount Rushmore?):

Eleanor Roosevelt: 1,763
Susan B. Anthony: 909
Rosa Parks: 842
Hilary Clinton: 718

Some strong runner ups: Harriet Tubman, Mother Theresa, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Oprah Winfrey, Gloria Steinem, Amelia Earhart and Sojourner Truth.

This week, Meg Whitman joins us for a wOw interview. Recently announcing plans to resign from the CEO-ship of eBay, she tells Lesley Stahl her career philosophy, thoughts on the presidential race and future plans.

Your comments are clear and inspiring and we are learning from them every day. This week the wOw contributors will start responding to many of your comments (our tech team is finally catching up to our irrepressible need to TALK back!)

Also, our "tech guru" Liz Smith will give you a 5-minute video on how to use our site.

XOXOX,
Joni

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It seems to me the women on Mount Rushmore should first be US citizens and second be political figures (since we have no female presidents to choose from) - if they are to parallel the actual Mt. Rushmore mugs. That would exclude powerful women figures from countries outside the US and those citizens whose influence wasn’t strictly political. As a side note, in graduate school I cataloged the photographs of a major engineer on the Mount Rushmore project. I got to see the Black Hills before the faces went up, the process of blasting, and the freshly completed project. That was a cool job.

By Rebecca B on 03/17/2008 1:25 pm

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Wow. I just read about this site this weekend. Women wanting to explore, learn, and chat. Cool. Couldn’t wait to sign up - jump on the site while having that first cup…. - What? Site ladies vote to have Hilary Clinton on Rushmore? did I miss something in reading that newspaper column explaining the site and the ladies behind it. Now I am em bare assed for you. I don’t want the same ol’ stuff. I was hoping for a line of free thinkers.

By run genrun on 03/17/2008 1:40 pm

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Mount Rushmore is a monument to how things used to be. Who the hell goes to South Dakota? The Statue of Liberty, a woman, welcomed immigrants - better location and a lot more famous. www.wolynski.blogspot.com

By e. wolynski on 03/17/2008 2:02 pm

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Have you ever seen Mt Rushmore up close. It is breath taking. I am not a history buff by any means but my heart stopped when we started walking down the walk of flags and looked up and saw Mt Rushmore. The history behind the building of it is unbelievable.

By Ann Nolan on 03/18/2008 8:52 am

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Ann: Why don’t you tell us something about that history?

By Joni Evans on 03/18/2008 1:29 pm

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Well, just the thought of having four women represented on Mt. Rushmore is pretty cool. Two of the four “winners” were ones I voted for (Eleanor & Susan B.). My other choices were Jane Addams & Oprah. I don’t think Hillary has impacted women’s issues to a degree deserving of such an honor…. yet. Rosa was a social & political icon, who should be respected, but not immortalized in stone.

By Dollie Lamba on 03/17/2008 2:42 pm

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You go Paula Rigby Kohring, what one of us can sit in judgement of anyone else. You know what the old saying is Opinions are like … …. , junk mail everyone get’s it. First shouldn’t we make sure our own life is perfect. But then again it’s easier to critque someone else life verses our own. I do agree tho, with another lady before we start erecting monuments let’s see whether the person life accomplishments qualify for such and honor .

By Debra Thomas on 03/17/2008 3:05 pm

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I would like to say to the one in my life is and was my mother EVELYN D. HOWARD .She is the one without her I would not have the accomplishments that I have.Allwomen who name is say great things to them and such honor to them. THANK YOU RASHIDA HOWARD OF TOLEDO OHIO

By rashida howard on 03/17/2008 3:35 pm

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I say BRAVO to those who voted for Hillary, because I agree 100%. Jack Nicholson said it right when he said she has proved she is tough! She is a woman of strength! I agree with the other women chosen too. They are all women of strength!

By Becky R on 03/17/2008 5:20 pm

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Hillary? Oh, puleeeeeeze!

By kenju kenju on 03/17/2008 6:27 pm

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Ditto

By Dale McDonald on 03/17/2008 8:45 pm

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The Mount Rushmore question was a nice choice, but did anybody try to find out if the Hillary votes came from her own computers?

By C C on 03/17/2008 10:36 pm

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I must be in a small group because I don’t have the extreme reaction so many have about Hillary. I can think of a number of reasons of why she stayed with Bill. So what. I do not see why that personal decision has to be so closely linked to her “work” or political life. Granted I did not choose her for Rushmore (I choose Tubman, Helen Thomas, Susan B Anthony and Madeline Albright), but still.

By Sharon C on 03/17/2008 10:55 pm

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I voted for Hillary Clinton. How many women have run for US president and come this close to taking her party’s nomination and possibly winning? That she stayed with her husband isn’t as important to me as that she kept her daughter safe and whole through a very public shameful episode in her family’s life. Guts and talent. Would she do the same for her country? After that great fiasco she ran for senate and won. That takes guts, tenacity and personal power. Surprisingly she pulls so much criticism from women who should understand the pressures on a woman in this male dominated society. No matter what happens in this political race we haven’t seen the total of what this woman is capable of. I’m excited about what she has to show us and our daughters. History will be her judge, and 50 years from today we may be singing a different tune.

By Jozie Lee on 03/18/2008 6:57 am

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First I heard of your website. Like your choices. To all the practically perfect in every way bloggers - Does this mean that Eleanor should not have been chosen either?

By Judith Valverde on 03/18/2008 7:39 am