Ann Romney would be the first first lady since Mamie Eisenhower to have never held a job:
"Laura Bush, as most of us probably know, was a teacher and a librarian working in poor neighborhoods. Nancy Reagan worked as a sales clerk, a nurse's aide, and an actress, appearing in 11 films. Rosalynn Carter worked from age 15 at a Georgia hairdresser's before taking over her family's peanut farm, a job that sounds both folksy and delicious (it's impossible for me to imagine running a profitable peanut farm because I would eat all of the peanuts, develop an allergy to them, and die happy). Betty Ford opened her own dance school, modeled dresses and furs, and at one point worked as a food processor at a frozen-foods factory. Hillary Clinton (the first First Lady with an advanced degree) and Michelle Obama were both well-respected attorneys, probably, at certain points in their marriages, even more well-respected as working professionals than their husbands. Even Jackie Kennedy, the First Lady most famous for her semblance of domestic composure, worked as a journalist at the Washington Times-Herald, a job through which she met the young U.S. senator, John F. Kennedy. Pat Nixon, though, seems to have had the most eclectic professional life of them all — she worked on a bank floor, harvested all manner of vegetables for her family's "truck farm," was an x-ray technician, pharmacy manager, typist, and lab assistant at a hospital, tested beauty products, waitressed, ensured that overdue library borrowers got their comeuppance, and helped people buy stuff at department stores.
And.... all these woman also found time to raise families.
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