Word: natividad
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...groups urged Michael Dukakis to put more effort into passing the bill. They also demanded that Bush drop his opposition to it. The Vice President is no doubt aware that 10 million more women than men will vote on Nov. 8. As National Women's Political Caucus Chair Irene Natividad warns, "No one can get elected without us, not to the Senate, not to the House and certainly not to the presidency...
...Irene Natividad, chairwoman of National Women's Political Caucus, said Mrs. Schroeder had made "a smart, pragmatic political decision. I think it was the right thing...
...elections has become so commonplace that voters have almost ceased to notice it. "I think the (gender) issue has been neutralized," says University of Nebraska Political Scientist Robert Sittig. "The Nebraska candidates had established themselves long before this election. I think people see them as career politicians." Irene Natividad, head of the National Women's Political Caucus, agrees: "There are more women in the political pipeline than there used to be." Although the number of women candidates for Congress is actually down this year from 1984, more women are running for state offices. The proportion of women in state legislatures...
Although women's organizations have played an important part in many elections, they seem to have been relegated to the background role of fund raiser and networker on the campaign trail. Raising money is still more difficult for women than men, says Natividad, because "women tend to be challengers, and political-action-committee money tends to go for the incumbents." This year the Washington-based Women's Campaign Fund, founded in 1974, is raising money for more than 100 progressive female candidates. "Our goal," says the fund's Virginia Sheridan, "is to provide (a total of) over...