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Many women are heartened, however, by the gains at the local level. Connecticut's Ella Grasso, the first woman to win a governorship in her own right, says these victories will percolate women into office in a few years. Adds Georgetown University Politics Professor Jeane Kirkpatrick: "Women just are not able to start at the top, where the prejudices haven't disappeared." But the number of women winning local elections is not inspiring: women now hold 9% of the seats in state legislatures, 2% of the state judgeships, 3% of the county commission offices, 8% of the mayoral and local...
...feeling, among women as well as men, that a woman's place is in the home, not the House. Kansas Democratic Congresswoman Martha Keys, who is married to Indiana Congressman Andrew Jacobs, has an opponent who used the slogan A MAN TO RELY ON. When Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso ran four years ago, she was confronted by her opponent's slogan CONNECTICUT CAN'T AFFORD A WOMAN GOVERNOR. Bella Abzug observes that sexism surfaces particularly quickly when voters feel a woman's style challenges traditional notions of femininity. Says she: "If I were a man, they would have said...
CONNECTICUT. In a tight race for Governor, Democratic Incumbent Ella Grasso has discovered that a chief problem is her own rather earthy personality. An old-school politician who gives as well as she gets, Grasso called her primary opponent an s.o.b., among other things...
...Republican adversary, Congressman Ronald Sarasin, faults her for substantially increasing the state budget. But Grasso has produced a surplus for three successive years, and she has proposed sales and business tax cuts for the 1979 budget. Sarasin is leading a petition drive for a state-constitution ban on an income tax and a limit on spending. He says of the 50,000 people who have signed to date: "I see them as supporting the concept. I hope they support...
...American delegation to the funeral included Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton (D-Mo.), Connecticut Gov. Ella Grasso, Mayor Edward Koch of New York, Rep. Michael Blouin (D-Iowa) and Lillian Carter, mother of President Carter...