“A Woman At The Table”

One week ago, Katie Couric sat down for a pre-speech Iraq briefing at the White House, “and noticed something unusual.”

She writes on CBSNews.com: “As I was looking at my colleagues around the room — Charlie Gibson, George Stephanopoulos, Brian Williams, Tim Russert, Bob Schieffer, Wolf Blitzer, and Brit Hume — I couldn’t help but notice, despite how far we’ve come, that I was still the only woman there. Well, there was some female support staff near the door. But of the people at the table, the ‘principals’ in the meeting, I was the only one wearing a skirt. Everyone was gracious, though the jocular atmosphere was palpable.”

Here’s the full blog entry…