Word: danowitz
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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...
...Women do have a different voice in politics,"says Danowitz. "They bring different issues to theforefront. In the current climate there has beenenormous potential for women to capitalize ontheir difference--but that in and of itself is notenough...
Another difficulty women have faced this yearhas been the barrage of negative campaigns mountedby their opponents. In the case of Murphy, whopulled out of the Massachusetts race a week beforethe primary, Danowitz argues that the lieutanantgovernor was "a victim of not being able to gonegative...
...When she was attacked she didn't strike backsuccessfully--and that's a problem many womencandidates have," Danowitz...
...terms of raising money, women now tend todo as well as their male counterparts in similarsituations. But the power of incumbency is stillthe number one barrier to women or any newleadership," says Danowitz. "Their differentvoices aren't enough to break the shackles...