The Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women & Politics at Iowa State University is currently developing two archives of women's political communication - (1) an online archive of women's political speech and (2) a videotape collection of women political candidates' campaign commercials.

The Archive of Women's Political Communication is made possible through a generous gift from Richard and Mary Jo Stanley of Muscatine, IA.

Begum Khaleda Zia

Khaleda Zia served as Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1991 until 1996 and again in 2001 until 2006. A highlight of Zia’s administration was the progress seen in the education sector. Zia was born in the Dinajpur district in northwestern Bangladesh in 1945. In 1960, she married Ziaur Rahman. Her husband, one of the prominent heroes of the country's liberation war, later became President of the Republic and formed the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in April 1977. After the assassination of President Rahman on May 30, 1981, his vice-president, Justice Abdus Sattar, took over as the acting president and also...   More