Yale Campaign School for Women and the International Women's Democracy Center, both non-profit, non-partisan organizations groom women candidates - teaching them the skills they need to compete in a very cutthroat business. Both organizations, aware that for a woman to be elected she will have to approach the campaign differently than a man would, have developed methods customized to maximize women's success. Their success rate would be the envy of any organization.

Since 1994, the Yale Campaign School for Women has trained over 1,500 women. Of the women who were trained who had never held office, 60% were elected. When the IWDC trains women how to run for office, it often results in doubling to tripling the number of women elected to Parliaments. Barbara Ferris is the founder and president of the IWDC, formerly the Women in Development Director for Peace Corps, and an advisor to the US Delegation to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

We will follow women candidates in The United States and witness their transformation into highly skilled contenders. Through exclusive access behind the scenes, on the campaign trail, viewers will learn alongside the candidates, empowering them to pursue and win political office. Viewers will rejoice with them in their dramatic victories and after the tears of defeat - see the rebirth of determination to run again.

Historians, political scientists, sociologists, legal scholars and anthropologists share their views on the evolving role of women in society and politics.

"Madam President," with its' national and international distribution will increase the exposure of these training sessions offered by both Yale and the IWDC to millions of women worldwide.

"In order for any nation to achieve its full social, economic and political potential, all of her citizens must have equal access to fully participate in the democratic process." Barbara Ferris, President, International Women's Democracy Center

Within the United States, women candidates face a skeptical public and biased media coverage that focuses more attention on a woman's appearance or her gender than her stance on the issues while women candidates in other countries often face real danger.    

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