Word: genders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard-Radcliffe structure, Radcliffe students, who had gradually won many Harvard privileges over the two preceding decades, officially became Harvard students too. Gender-blind dormitories, admissions, and instruction were now the norm...
Ferraro wrought no miracles, but she broke the gender barrier...
...White House gold. But in that, both candidates mostly proved what has always been true: presidential nominees win or lose elections primarily on their own. The longer-term impact of Ferraro's candidacy, while it will take months or even years to assess completely, is almost certain to make gender a less rending issue in presidential politics. And in that respect, the consequences of her candidacy are likely to be immense...
...dubbed. Many women leaders now acknowledge that those who thought a breakthrough candidacy would lead to huge gains among female officeholders were hoping for too much. Says Kathy Wilson, head of the National Women's Political Caucus: "It's hard to unseat an incumbent at any price and any gender." Still, Ferraro's high visibility helped carry some women's issues closer to the political mainstream, including increases in the federal funding of day-care facilities and reforms eliminating sexual discrimination in pension benefits. Another part of her legacy may be the increased participation of women in the upper echelons...
...record total of 65 women had filed for House seats, 20 of them as incumbents. The general trend of voters to stick with their district legislators had no gender gap; all 20 women were reelected. But few of the challengers were successful. Perhaps the most prominent loser was Elise du Pont, 48, wife of Delaware's Republican Governor, Pierre S. du Pont IV. Her campaign suffered when she came across as rude and whiny in a debate with Incumbent Democrat Thomas Carper, 37. A fiscal conservative, Carper used his folksy manner and personal grass-roots approach...