Different but Important -- Reaction

Reserve Reading

It's always incredible and inspiring to read about women who have made differences in your life, differences they you didn't even know about before. Barbara Mikulski is an extremely intense woman, which her writing reflects. She worked with the new women in 1992 to get them aquainted with Senate. This is one of the main differences between the women and the men, to the women it wasn't this huge competition. They had all gotten into Senate, and they should all try and be s successful as possible. Even though they didn't agree on ll their issues, they could come together on the ones they did agree on.

Coming together has actually always been one of the provblems with the women's movements because women themselves are so divided on different subjects. But there are also always the ones that everyone agrees on, like the fact that a stay at home woman, or man, should get the same tax deductions as a working spouse. The woman are working together, with male colleagues, to get work in the home recoginzed for the hard work that it is.

Mikulski started by giving a tutorial to all her democratic women colleagues and then she extended it to Republican women as well. There was some real work across party lines which is always good because it makes for a cohesive government.