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...when he suggested that part of the nation's unemployment problem was owing to the increase of women in the work force. He consistently lent support to the effort to make abortion illegal. The depth of women's resentment on that issue alone was dramatized in San Antonio at a lunch at which Republican Senator Robert Packwood was praised for his opposition to a constitutional amendment banning abortion. Some women suddenly found themselves weeping over baskets of fried chicken, as they expressed relief that except for a few still stormy skirmishes, the Supreme Court's decision upholding...
...courting time in San Antonio. The suitors came early and stayed late. They made sure that the women staff members who accompanied them were highly visible, flourishing them like bouquets. Addressing the 800 delegates to the convention of the bipartisan National Women's Political Caucus, they offered lyrical tributes to the ability of women to influence the election of the next President of the U.S. And with good reason. Each-Walter Mondale, John Glenn, Gary Hart, Alan Cranston and Ernest Hollings-is a Democratic contender for that very office...
...sunny terrace above the cypress-shaded San Antonio River, four Congresswomen gleefully summed up the moment. Said Democrat Geraldine Ferraro of New York: "We've got the issues, we've got the gender gap on our side, and at long last the men are going to pay attention to us." Republican Congresswomen Claudine Schneider of Rhode Island and Olympia Snowe of Maine said that even the White House had begun to take notice. Not a moment too soon. The fourth member of the group, Democrat Barbara Kennelly of Connecticut, had brought both Republican and Democratic delegates to their...
...hostility to Reagan prompted San Antonio City Councilman Van Archer to complain: "There's just no way in the world I can understand how 200 women who don't shave their legs can claim to speak for the women of America." His remark suggested a poor eye for legs as well as for polls. The women of America, in every social, economic and racial group and in every geographic region, have consistently given President Reagan a poorer performance rating than have men. A New York Times/CBS News poll revealed that among Republicans the discrepancy between...
...White House publicly rejected the message from San Antonio. Faith Ryan Whittlesey, Assistant to the President for public liaison, said the N.W.P.C. is "clearly not in the American mainstream." Whittlesey argued that the Administration's gains on the economy are especially beneficial to women. She wondered, not without reason, "why the Democrats are not holding meetings to find out why they are losing male voters." However, White House sources admit that women's issues have become a matter of high-level concern. Responsibility for dealing with the gender gap has been turned over to Deputy Chief of Staff...