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Political strategy aside. the NWPC is becoming more receptive to men because it seems that men are showing more interest in the caucus. Many members have found that made politicians started taking the caucus more seriously when it scored several successes in pushing its candidates for Congressional elections last year...
While the new treaty with men offers a tempting apple of political expediency, it also poses a dilemma: Will the NWPC make "an impact on the male power structure", as Farenthold claims it has, or will it be absorbed by the male status quo? "I depends on how seriously men take us, one delegate said. "It they think were important, they'll grab...
...What the NWPC is grappling with are the problems of a group that seeks to encompass as wide a popular base as possible. Even without men, the convention fairly bristled with muted friction between whites and blacks, have and have nots. Predictably, whites have dominated the convention and that was the source of the problem...
Racial friction seemed to be on a lot of people's minds-even though few would really talk about it-because it turned out to be a factor in the election of Audrey Rowe Colom, a black Republican, as the new NWPC Chair. Colom, however, downplayed the tensions that gnawed at the convention. "I think that what you saw here this weekend was sisterhood and that sisterhood transcended racial, ethnic and party lines...
...goal of the ERA strategy adopted by the convention is to see to it that four more out of the remaining twenty states ratify the amendment before March 1979. Koryne Horbal, a member of the NWPC Administrative Committee of Minnesota, said at a strategy planning workshop. "The key to success next year must be to get people to take ERA seriously as a civil rights issue that goes far beyond the women's movement...