Word: genderization
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...sterling presidential qualities, but because he (she) will help ensure victory in November. The exercise is often called ticket balancing. If nominees in elections past have chosen running mates for geographical balance, or ethnic balance, or religious balance, what is wrong now with choosing a running mate for gender balance, in somewhat the way that television's morning shows (Today, CBS Morning News, Good Morning America) are cast...
...principal objections to putting a woman on the Democratic ticket this summer is that there is no one truly qualified?or, at least, no one better qualified than any number of available men?and that any woman who appears on the ticket will be there only because of her gender. Is that so bad? If Ferraro or Feinstein were a man, it is unlikely that either would be mentioned for the vice presidency. On the other hand, if Lyndon Johnson had come from, say, Rhode Island, instead of from Texas, John Kennedy would never have picked him for the Democratic...
...Duluth, a retired 56-year-old fire fighter named Roger Armstrong says, "Ability and intelligence have nothing to do with gender. For an old blue-collar Polack [on his mother's side] like me, that's a hell of an admission." Workers in Chicago bars accepted Jane Byrne as mayor without any sense of trauma or endangered masculinity. Studs Terkel, anthropologist of the working class, explains: "The issue is dead. The guys in the bar have been conditioned by idols like Barbara Stanwyck. Now they're ready for a Gerri Ferraro or a Pat Schroeder...
...says Congresswoman Barbara Kennelly, a Connecticut Democrat. "She is photogenic, she is bright, she has worked, she has brought up children, she is the right age." But is she qualified to be Vice President? Ferraro is the first to admit that she is being considered mainly because of her gender, not her qualifications. But she adds, "If I weren't capable of doing the job, I wouldn't be talked about." Naysayers bemoan her lack of expertise in arms control and foreign policy. Ferraro feels the Budget Committee has been a crash course on the economy...
Among Republicans, speculation about female vice-presidential nominees is purely that, since George Bush is not about to be nudged off the ticket. The Republicans, however, might have more to gain from having a woman on their ticket, since it is Ronald Reagan who is struggling to close the gender gap. Moreover, the Republicans might have an easier time picking a top-drawer female candidate. "We would be in a better a position than the Democrats," says Kansas Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum, 51, who heads the list of her party's female vice-presidential prospects, "because we have more...