Word: genders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gender gap-the marked difference between the political views of men voters and the increasingly sizable body of women voters-rang out as the theme of the convention, set to a Texas mariachi beat. The delegates, most of them Congresswomen, state officials and activists, found that women's status as this year's pre-election prom queen was a lot more fun than last year's post-ERA role as wallflower. It was, for one thing, the first time since the Caucus was founded twelve years ago that the guys had come to their party...
...sunny terrace above the cypress-shaded San Antonio River, four Congresswomen gleefully summed up the moment. Said Democrat Geraldine Ferraro of New York: "We've got the issues, we've got the gender gap on our side, and at long last the men are going to pay attention to us." Republican Congresswomen Claudine Schneider of Rhode Island and Olympia Snowe of Maine said that even the White House had begun to take notice. Not a moment too soon. The fourth member of the group, Democrat Barbara Kennelly of Connecticut, had brought both Republican and Democratic delegates to their...
...kindest explanation for Reagan's gender gap comes from those women who, like Congresswoman Snowe, try to see it as a generation gap. Says Snowe: "He's just not capable of understanding the problems of today's women." But groups like the Women's Truth Squad on Reagan of the National Organization for Women take a harsher view, with their detailed indictments of Reagan's positions on women's issues. NOW cites Reagan's plans to reduce affirmative-action requirements and equal-employment regulations, his opposition to programs designed to produce educational equity...
...especially beneficial to women. She wondered, not without reason, "why the Democrats are not holding meetings to find out why they are losing male voters." However, White House sources admit that women's issues have become a matter of high-level concern. Responsibility for dealing with the gender gap has been turned over to Deputy Chief of Staff Mike Deaver with orders, say sources, to "blunt it-by substance and symbolism...
Democrats should not begin rehearsing Happy Days Are Here Again, warns Ann Lewis, political director of the Democratic National Committee. "The gender gap is just an opportunity. It doesn't mean women have given the Democratic Party their proxy, and the gap will exist only as long as women perceive there is a real difference between parties...