She Dared to Succeed

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0.03); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The relationship between achievement and service is a complicated one. This is particularly true for women. And the women who accomplish great things are often stigmatized for their success.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0.03); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Canadian Senator Marie-Paule Charette-Poulin's story is a complicated tale of achievement and service. She served as a social worker pioneering radio programmer media executive President of the Liberal Party of Canada lawyer and parliamentarian in the Senate of Canada. She sat on the board of several corporations organizations and not-for-profits. In all these roles she accomplished something truly extraordinary: great personal achievement </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>through</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0.03)> public service.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0.03); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>She dared to succeed but this success has not been easy.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0.03); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>As a single mother in the early 1970s she was shunned. As a working woman she encountered gender discrimination sexual harassment mockery shaming and intimidation. As a senator she faced the painful public investigation of the Senate expenses enquiry.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0.03); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>And yet here is a woman of tremendous achievement. She has dedicated her life to public service and to a variety of important causes. She dared to succeed... despite it all.</span></p>