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COMMENTS: Sex Role Stereotypes
While George and Barack talked issues, Laura and Michelle toured the accommodations, "measuring the drapes…trying to envision making a 200-year-old mansion home," as ABC's Claire Shipman (no link) put it. CBS anchor Katie Couric filed a feature to preview the First Lady role that Michelle Obama would adopt. "There is no training or description for one of the most high profile jobs in the country," Couric mused, before deciding that Mrs Obama would not treat the position as a "job" after all, despite her Ivy League law degree. "In many ways Michelle Obama will be a traditional First Lady whose primary duties will be wife and mother."
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