Word: genderization
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Money follows power, and as women accumulate more of it their treasuries will grow. According to Jane Danowitz, executive director of the Women's Campaign Fund, when women run for the big-ticket offices in which Big Business has an interest, "gender is no bar. Money takes notice, as it did in gubernatorial races in California and Texas, and the Senate race in Hawaii...
...first woman vice-presidential candidate, not as the only one. And the next presidential bid by a woman will not just be remembered for having ended in tears, as Schroeder's did in 1987. Harvard psychologist Carol Gilligan, author of In A Different Voice, a landmark study of gender differences, argues that women have greater moral strength, a stronger ethic of care and overriding concern for making and maintaining relationships -- all qualities of a good politician. She has even said that feelings -- and, yes, tears if it should come to that -- have their place in a man's world. Meantime...
...exit poll. Now women give Quayle even less support than men do. A recent TIME survey found that only 20% of American women (vs. 30% of men) view Quayle as qualified to assume power if something happened to George Bush. The contrast is one of many demonstrating that a gender gap still yawns in U.S. politics...
...that we were wrong back in the salad days of feminism about the existence of nurturant "feminine values." If anything, women have more distinctive views as a sex than they did 20 years ago. The gender gap first appeared in the presidential election of 1980, with women voting on the more liberal side. Recent polls show that women are more likely to favor social spending for the poor and to believe it's "very important" to work "for the betterment of American society...
...child care, abortion, rape and domestic violence will no longer be cast as "women's issues." They will be viewed as economic issues, family issues, ethical issues, of equal resonance to men and women. A woman heading a huge corporation will not make headlines by virtue of her gender. Half the presidential candidates may be women -- and nobody will notice...