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By 1976, the Republican party abandoned its support of the Equal Rights Amendment, and by 1980 conservative anti-ERA women had succeeded in other goals, securing an anti-abortion plank in the GOP platform and helping nominate Ronald Reagan for president. At the end of the 1970s, less than half of women supported the ERA, and the effort to ...
In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan rejuvenated the conservative Republican ideology, with tax cuts, greatly increased defense spending, deregulation, a policy of rolling back communism, a greatly strengthened military and appeals to family values and conservative Judeo-Christian morality.
The phrase made reference to Thatcher's refusal to perform a "U-turn" in response to opposition to her liberalisation of the economy, which some commentators as well as her predecessor as Conservative leader Edward Heath had urged, [3] mainly because unemployment had risen to 2 million by the autumn of 1980 from 1.5 million the previous year ...
President Obama chides Mitt Romney for calling Russia, and not Al Qaeda, the No. 1 threat to the United
You may recognize names like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton from history class. They fought for women to have the right to vote. But the fight for women's equality is far from finished.
Backlash is Susan Faludi's 550 page analysis of social, economic and political inequities and resulting difficulties American women faced in the 1980s. [citation needed] The book was hailed as "the most vehement and unapologetic call to arms to issue from the feminist camp in many years", [3] and "a rich compendium of fascinating information and an indictment of a system losing its grip."
Ten Conservatives have so far put themselves forward for the party’s top job. Conservative leadership candidates: What are their policies, beliefs and ideas? Skip to main content
The Women's Equity Action League (WEAL) was founded in 1968, [1] by Elizabeth M. Boyer, [2] during the 2nd wave feminist movement. The organization was founded in Cleveland, Ohio and headquartered in Washington, D.C., as a "spin-off" of the National Organization for Women (NOW) by more conservative women.