Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outta my head. Please take me home." They did. Back on the line, they met an old woman who said simply, "You boys, you make me feel safe again...
...first woman in the club. She emerges from the shadows of the past two years as the President's most trusted, wise, durable and important adviser in virtually every phase of his stewardship. "She is the first First Lady I have known who is a true adviser to the President on almost every issue," says a White House veteran who has known them all back to Eleanor Roosevelt. Adds a former White House man: "She has more impact on policy than any other President's wife in this generation. She knows what is going...
...factor in the election, however, may turn out to be the X chromosome. Will Margaret Thatcher lose votes because she is a woman? In Leicester, Button Machinist Betty Poynton confessed, after Thatcher's visit to her shop floor: "I don't fancy a woman as Prime Minister. It's a fellow's job." Others may well agree. Thatcher, however, thinks her sex may be an advantage. "There's an air of excitement," she says, "about the possibility that we're going to have a change of this kind." Later, in a mood of introspection...
Despite Thatcher's well managed, energetic campaign, few experts were willing to predict assuredly that she would become Britain's first woman Prime Minister. There were simply too many imponderables. One unanswered question was whether the unions were in such bad grace with the majority of voters that the open support of bosses like Evans and Weighell for Callaghan would tip the crucial swing vote in favor of the Tories. The country's rapidly growing and increasingly restive black and Asian population could be a significant factor, even though less than half of eligible minority voters...
Margaret Thatcher's achievement in becoming Britain's first woman Prime Minister is writ large with irony. Thursday's general election brought no cheer to feminists: Britain's only avowed lesbian MP lost her seat, as did Labour's most important woman politician, popular cabinet minister Shirley Williams. The new House of Commons contains the smallest contingent of women since 1950. As for Mrs. Thatcher herself, some regard her views on the role of women in society as being just about on a par with the Ayatollah Khomeini...