“Even when you hear some of the contemporary discourse about the conservative women who go into politics, when you listen to the Michele Bachmanns or the Sarah Palins, there are strong connections back to the arguments and ideologies of the Remonstrants. Should women with school-age children work? Who is the primary giver in the home? Should men co-parent? Yeah, we’re having the same debates.”
This collection of Victorian anti-suffrage postcards at Collectors Weekly makes me painfully aware that the battle for equality is still being waged a century later. Women have the chance to rock the vote on Tuesday. It would be a shame if the opportunity were wasted.
Central Mississippi Tea Party President Janis Lane says, "Our country might have been better off if it was still just men voting. There is nothing worse than a bunch of mean, hateful women. They are diabolical in how than can skewer a person. I do not see that in men."
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That is scary stuff.
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ReplyDeleteI am ever amazed, though, that given that women now control over fifty percent of the votes, that we still have male-dominated governments. Are women not voting for women?
Many women with families do not enter political life because of the time demands. The political party I work for has a policy that requires ridings to prove that women have been recruited to run before they are allowed to hold nomination meetings and has long had a goal of women making up 50% of its candidates. The NDP's slate of candidates in the 2011 election was 40 per cent female, with 123 women, the largest slate of female candidates ever nominated by a Canadian political party in a federal election. However it is still a struggle to find qualified women to run.
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