Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unusual between the sexes, and are not, in and of themselves, a bad thing. However, when one turns to the comments included in the survey report, a more troubling picture emerges. It's not simply that a tenured male faculty member attributes attention to sexual harassment to "feminist hysteria." Nor does it stop at defensive remarks that sexual harassment complaints are "fabricated", or comments decrying "reverse sexual harassment"--overtures from students...
...Patricia Schroeder, 43. An outspoken feminist and a Colorado Congresswoman since 1972, she is a leading member of the House Armed Services Committee. She is given high marks for her knowledge of military issues, but is often perceived as a predictable anti-Pentagon liberal...
Because of the Reagan Administration's spotty record on women's issues, it is an appropriate time for any Democratic candidate to come out strongly in favor of feminist concerns as all the candidates did. Despite the recent appointment of Katherine Davalos Ortego as Secretary of the Treasury, the administration has not yet recovered from the crippling embarassment of Barbara Honegger's resignation from her post as Special Adviser on Women's Issues. The attitude of the White House towards Honegger was adequately summed up in Larry Speakes' reference to her as a "Munchkin" whose only function was to give...
...will support the candidate, probably Walter Mondale, whom it perceives to be most supportive to most feminist issues. The frantic claims of the Presidential candidates will be tossed out with the newspapers they were reported in, and the Vice-Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party determined next summer will be male, white and Protestant...
Perhaps the fact that the candidates have gone so far as to suggest that they are open to a female Vice-Presidential candidate is encouraging although their hypocritical optimism and enthusiasm about the prospect is not. NOW members, and all feminist activists, should continue to pressure politicians to enact feminist legislations; they should not allow false hopes to be raised which would cause NOW members to slacken their efforts. The idea of a woman in the White House, even in the second position, is not unthinkable: only the perception of that possibility is still prohibitive. And that perception...