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...label that a lot of women, especially young ones, reject even as they acknowledge how much the movement increased the opportunities available to them. Younger women "think of feminists as women who burn bras and don't shave their legs," says Pat Schroeder, dean of Capitol Hill's 29 Congresswomen. "They think of us as the Amazons of the '60s. The facts have no relation to it, but it's become conventional wisdom...
...finest tradition of 19th century fiction, is saved from a life of litigation when she drops out of law school perilously close to the bar exam. Honor almost stained is surefire, and in successive Grisham melodramas, we may expect heroines rescued at the last moment from careers as Congresswomen, TV weather babblers and Tobacco Institute scientists...
...turmoil at HHS is not the only problem Bush will face as he tries to satisfy both sides of the abortion debate. Last week the President spent a day campaigning for two pro-choice Republicans, Congresswomen Claudine Schneider of Rhode Island, who hopes to unseat Senator Claiborne Pell, and Lynn Martin of Illinois, who plans to run for the Senate. Then, as he flew back to Washington, he vetoed the budget bill for the District of Columbia because it contained a provision that would use city funds to pay for abortions for poor women. It was Bush's fourth abortion...
Packwood isn't alone. Earlier this week, four Republican Congresswomen, all supporters of abortion-rights, met with President Bush to discuss the issue. They emerged from the meeting with a surprise. The President, they said, no longer rules out federal financing for abortions for poor women in the case of incest and rape. What a difference twelve months makes...
...June 1984, the idea was gaining serious momentum. At least four Governors and a majority of state Democratic leaders endorsed the idea of a woman Vice President, and so did House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who added a name: Ferraro. Congresswomen Barbara Kennelly of Connecticut, Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Mary Rose Oakar of Ohio also came out for Ferraro. Finally, on July 4, a delegation of 3 women leaders traveled to Mondale's Minnesota headquarters to make their case. The National Women's Political Caucus sent him a final compendium of arguments for a woman...