The Year of the Woman -- Reaction

Reserve Reading

There were huge leaps in 1992, but since then there has been little improvement. In my entire lifetime (I was born in 1993) there has been almost no step forward in the representation of women. We remain dormant, docile, and domestic. What will it take to just light the fire beneath the humming timbers of the woman's movement? It's not that women have stopped working, but we are disorganized and too separate, there's nothing to rally behind.

I'm glad the government is making a turn back towards the Democratic side. Personally, I agree more with Democratic ideals, but Democrats have also tended to be more accepting of women. What with Hillary Clinton almost receiving nomination this year and the difference between the Republican and Democratic conventions mentioned in the reading, it makes the Democratic Party look much more friendly too women.

It's interesting to read an article from the leader of NWPC because you can really see in her writing the actual split between the women's parties. The way she wrote about NOW draws a huge line between the parties. It does make sense, but it's too bad that even in the Year of the Woman we couldn't agree, it really shows what is stopping bigger progress. Why can't all the groups come together in one organization called just Women. You could even make it into a fun acronym like the rest of them.

This article speaks of both success and failure. One year, in centuries of fighting, to reach less then equal representation, and look at how excited everyone was. And afterwards? Nothing. It'd be interesting to read some of the women's documents now, what they say about the Year of the Woman.