Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wants nothing less for Verena than an airtight existence as her personal protege and possession. For a time, things work out: Verena is genuinely fond of her mentor, discloses her every thought and act, and shows promise as the darling of the East Coast parlour circuit as she delivers feminist addresses to fashionable audiences...
When she stepped onstage Monday afternoon for a women's political fund raiser, and the next morning at a women's caucus, she was received like a feminist superheroine, history incarnate. At the morning caucus session of 2,000 female delegates and alternates, she kept her remarks brief and understated, as she did in all of her joint appearances with Mondale. Yet, in five minutes the audience whooped and applauded ten times and chanted, "Gerry, Gerry, Gerry." Said she: "I need you. We all need each other." By remarkable coincidence, Ferraro's birthday...
Ferraro is in many ways an old-fashioned poll. When she came to Congress in 1978, she did not take to the floor to make feminist speeches but instead worked the back halls, carefully cultivating her male elders by performing small chores and favors. She became a disciple of Speaker Tip O'Neill. "She has been a regular since the day she arrived," says O'Neill approvingly. The Speaker rewarded her with House plums, making her a member of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, Secretary to the House Democratic Caucus and, in 1983, a member...
...abortions in cases of rape, incest and endangerment of the mother's life. "I have been blessed with the gift of faith," she explains. "But others have not. I have no right to impose my beliefs on them." She championed the Equal Rights Amendment, and considers herself a feminist. She sponsored legislation that would help women in private pension plans by lowering the age at which a woman becomes vested; an amendment permitting wives to set aside the same amount in IRA accounts as their husbands; and a measure to give better pension rights to women who become widows...
CONVENTION. A feminist once wrote that when a woman hears a slighting remark about her role in life, she sometimes also hears a remarkable sound: click. That is the moment of recognition, the sound of things falling into place. Just like that: click. Geraldine Ferraro probably heard the sound when a New York law firm's senior partner, who had been interviewing her for a job, finally said, "You're wonderful, but we're not hiring any women this year." Click. Or perhaps when her employer explained why other department heads were getting higher pay: "But, Gerry...