Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Ethel Klein entered City College of New York in 1969, college meant marching on Central Park, organizing the surrounding ghettoes, exploring the emerging feminist movement. "My first three years, spring semester lasted about a month and a half," she recalls...
...slipped from the platform, but among some Republicans, support is gaining. "Tyne Mary Vance is part of the family's growing feminist movement," proclaimed the former First Lady Betty Ford on her first official visit to her week-old granddaughter. "I hope she follows in her grandfather's footsteps and becomes President, but with any luck, she won't be the first woman to do so." Mama Susan Ford Vance, 23, wants Tyne Mary "to grow up in a world where she can be anything she wants to be." She might even emulate her dad Chuck Vance...
...ignored by Kennedy and actively opposed by Carter-the women added platform demands that candidates who are not in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment be denied party funds and that the Government pay for abortions for poor women. The result was to further tip the platform toward the feminist viewpoint. The platform already included planks demanding equal pay for women, improved child-care programs and support for boycotts of conventions in states that have not ratified...
Betty Friedan, feminist author, after the women's platform victory at the Democratic Convention: "We took on the Establishment, and we made them say 'aunt...
...hopping around town. "People who don't know me thought I was here to play," she said, "but I came out of a sense of commitment." Only when it was over did Christie finally cut loose-at Xenon with Presidential Pollster Patrick Caddell, who was squiring his feminist friend. Said she: "We're just good friends." Said he: "We're political allies...