What is the time commitment for the winner? How do you manage daytime appearances for women who work during the day?
A8: The Mrs. United States Organization celebrates the modern married woman and her commitment to her husband, family, career, charitable interests, and other activities. We realize that all of these things take a much higher priority than pageantry and that pageantry takes on a slightly different meaning in the married realm. We wouldn’t want our contestants or titleholders to participate in our program at the expense of their family or other commitments, which is why being a titleholder in a “Mrs.” system is a bit less structured than it typically is in other age divisions. Our philosophy is that most appearances and other commitments are voluntary and are at your discretion. As your schedule permits, you are welcomed to do as many or as few appearances as you would like. We are happy to arrange appearances for you if and when you are able, and the only time we would have a “pseudo-mandatory” appearance is if we had a major sponsor who wanted our titleholder to do an appearance. We l
