Word: genderization
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...defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment. Leaders of women's groups and women elected officials began meeting that summer to plan strategies to beat Ronald Reagan. Says Eleanor Smeal, former president of the National Organization for Women: "Once we had proved the existence of the gender gap, we had to figure...
...often difficult for what amounts almost to aesthetic reasons. Men, even if they are martinets, are rarely called bossy, and there is no epithet for men that is quite the equivalent of "bitchy." "Power is a tough issue for women," says Columbia Associate Professor Ethel Klein, author of Gender Politics. "Taking power is aggressive. It's not 'nice.' " Thus, for virtually all women, suggests Klein, Ferraro's nomination "is a watershed." Such a ripple effect, buoying women who are outside the narrow channel of politics, may finally be more significant than the electoral result. "Any time...
...unfolding. The U.S., after all, is far behind other countries that have actually elected women to their highest government offices. There are or have been female Prime Ministers of Britain, India, Israel and Sri Lanka; although they may have served as useful role models, the fact of their gender did not do much to end war or poverty in their countries or to introduce new levels of compassion to their governments. "Once the hoopla is over," says Pennsylvania's Joan Specter, "it will be back to business as usual...
There is considerable risk that if Mondale-Ferraro lose the November election, some blame will be ascribed to Ferraro's gender. Risks are inherent in emotionally charged politics; expectations can be raised far too quickly and frustrated. For some Blacks, the swing in national focus away from race is a political distraction. Ferraro's nomination, says South Carolina NAACP Co-Chair Adelle Adams, "may be a breakthrough for White women, but not for Black women or Black men." Then too it has been noted that a woman has merely won a shot at the vice presidency, second place...
...Oscar Wilde frippery, gaily mocking the prefects' hypocritical rites of passage, standing defiantly outside this class system, Bennett is a sexual subversive. By play's end, encouraged by a caustic Marxist classmate, Guy is ready to become a political subversive as well. Traitor to his gender, traitor to his country. Why bloody...