Reserve Reading
-Actually the "year of opportunity" that was seized by women.
-Women in House went from 28-47 + women in Senate went from 2-6
-1 or 2 unexpected victories to ignite whole country
-Illinois: promised to run woman against Senator Alan Dixon, Dem who voted for Thomas: Carol Mosely Braun
-1978. Braun won seat in Illinois House
-Braun said "Whites wouldn't vote for a black and nobody would vote for a woman"
-Dixon and challenger Hofeld knocked each other out, ignoring Braun as insignificant
-Penn: Lynn Yeakel filed for US Senate to defeat Rep Sen Arlen Specter, one of fircest interrogators of Anita Hill
-Year for the outsider + women = ultimate outsiders
-Cali: former mayor Dianne Feinstein + Congresswoman Barbara Boxer + both progressive women won.
-Washington State: Patty Murray ran for Senate against Sen Brock Adams who was charged w/ sexual harrassment
-EMILY's list grew, raised a lot of money.
-WISH list formed in 1992, repub counterpart. raise more then $400,000 in 1992
-Women candidates were raising more on their own as well.
-Approached magazines in new york
-NWPC gave quick reliable info to newspapers who then wrote lots of articles.
-213 wmn candidates for the house at the end of april
-NWPC didn't participate in NOW march for reproductive rights, was annoyed about it
-Women should be focusing on electing women, not on pressing one issue
-LWV also declined, but the rest of the groups marched to be in on the sisterhood
-"Don't Just Sing, Remake the Choir"
-Women benefited from antiincumbency mood since they were outsiders
-end of cold war changed agenda to domestic issues instead of foreign policy
-larger number of open seats from redistricting
-Pool of women with the right qualifications
-Hill-Thomas hearings + rape trials of William Kennedy Smith + Mike Tyson
-Began to focus on Bush and Clinton race w/ little women's action in the party conventions
-Parties dealt carefully with women, "the others"
-10/11 wmn nominated for senate were Dem
-Tried to get women in convention, leaders were evasive
-congressional wmn candidates displayed on the podium in prime time tv, + each had her own minute on camera
-Women used clinton, even though they weren't thrilled about him, and he used them against rumors of womanizing.
-Clinton: "I am the grandson of a working woman, the son of a single mother, the husband of a working wide... I am the father of a daughter who wants to build space stations in the sky"
-Tried to make women part of convention everyday.
-Tanya Mellich: "The Republican War Against Women"
-Repub's used to be major party for women, Reagan made big shift to right and women stayed where they were which ended up being with the dems
-Women more then 40% of Repub vote
-Held meeting in Houston in what had been a men's club
-Repub convention very against the women, didn't really let them work
-Many moderate repub women considered going dem
-20% of statewide offives + more then 20% of state legislative seats
-Washington State held almost 40% womn in legislature
-WISH list formed in 1992, repub counterpart. raise more then $400,000 in 1992
-Women candidates were raising more on their own as well.
-Approached magazines in new york
-NWPC gave quick reliable info to newspapers who then wrote lots of articles.
-213 wmn candidates for the house at the end of april
-NWPC didn't participate in NOW march for reproductive rights, was annoyed about it
-Women should be focusing on electing women, not on pressing one issue
-LWV also declined, but the rest of the groups marched to be in on the sisterhood
-"Don't Just Sing, Remake the Choir"
-Women benefited from antiincumbency mood since they were outsiders
-end of cold war changed agenda to domestic issues instead of foreign policy
-larger number of open seats from redistricting
-Pool of women with the right qualifications
-Hill-Thomas hearings + rape trials of William Kennedy Smith + Mike Tyson
-Began to focus on Bush and Clinton race w/ little women's action in the party conventions
-Parties dealt carefully with women, "the others"
-10/11 wmn nominated for senate were Dem
-Tried to get women in convention, leaders were evasive
-congressional wmn candidates displayed on the podium in prime time tv, + each had her own minute on camera
-Women used clinton, even though they weren't thrilled about him, and he used them against rumors of womanizing.
-Clinton: "I am the grandson of a working woman, the son of a single mother, the husband of a working wide... I am the father of a daughter who wants to build space stations in the sky"
-Tried to make women part of convention everyday.
-Tanya Mellich: "The Republican War Against Women"
-Repub's used to be major party for women, Reagan made big shift to right and women stayed where they were which ended up being with the dems
-Women more then 40% of Repub vote
-Held meeting in Houston in what had been a men's club
-Repub convention very against the women, didn't really let them work
-Many moderate repub women considered going dem
-20% of statewide offives + more then 20% of state legislative seats
-Washington State held almost 40% womn in legislature
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