Word: galvin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exhilarating. I also thought that men would be in some disfavor in Houston that weekend, but I decided to go anyway." Warner, who wrote a major portion of our cover story this week on the state of the women's movement, did not run into either the rhetorical Galvin fireworks or the chilly reception that he had expected. Says he: "The delegates were polite and cooperative. They were harder on each other than they were...
...Houston, Senior Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin teamed up with Atlanta Bureau Chief Rudolph Rauch and Stringer Jackie Schmeal. Nation Reporter-Researcher Barbara Dolan months ago had decided to attend the conference -on her own-as an observer. Says Dolan, a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Columbia, and a single parent with four children: "It was the major women's event of the century. Nothing would have kept me from attending...
Correspondent Galvin came away proud of the behavior of the delegates. Says she: "I have always admired my fellow women. But with a few exceptions, this was the most good-hearted group of people it has been my pleasure to report on - and some of them were downright inspiring." Correspondent Rauch also gained a number of new insights. "The irony may well be that the conservatives who have been forced from their hearths by the fervent feminists may prove equally unable to go back," he noted. He envied the women conventioneers - of whatever political persuasion - their stamina. "They do much...
...Alliances were forged for the battles that lie ahead. The women knew that their political skills were on trial, and they passed the test with flying colors. No one could accuse the participants of being any less adroit, canny or Machiavellian than men. Reports TIME Senior Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin: "What had not been clear was whether women who were eager to improve their lot, but had never been involved in the political process before, could be kept in order long enough even to discuss, let alone vote, on all these issues. Order was achieved by the kind of discipline...
Senior Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin, who did most of the reporting for this story, has followed the subject for five years. "When and if the sociobiological perspective becomes understood," says Galvin, "I feel that future generations will use it as matter-of-fact-ly as my generation has used the ideas of Sigmund Freud...