Women Emerge
Rosie
A League of Their Own
The Equal Rights Amendment Proposed 1972; Defeated 1982
Fighting for the Era
Betty Friedan, Co-Founder, National Organization of Women
Gloria Steinem, Founder of MS Magazine
The ERA Again
Popular Culture Sally Field Oscar-winning “Norma Rae”
Faye Dunaway’s Oscar-Winning Diana Christenson in “Network”
Folk Artist, Joni Mitchell
“Rocker” Bonnie Raitt
Astronaut Sally Ride
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Wisdom of Edith Bunker (All in the Family)
To Office: Women of the 1970s
Shirley Chisholm, Democrat, New York ( ) First African-American Woman Elected to Congress
Barbara Jordan Democrat, Texas First African-American Woman from the South
Bella Abzug Democrat, New York
Millicent Fenwick, Republican, New Jersey
Elizabeth Holtzman, Democrat New York
Senator Nancy Kassebaum, Republican, Kansas
Patricia Schroeder, Democrat, Colorado
The 1980s and Beyond
Vice Presidential Candidate, Geraldine Ferraro
Jeanne Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the UN
Sandra Day O’Connor Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
Madelienne Albright, U.S. Secretary of State
Ruth Bader Ginsberg Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Senators, 2001
Three States Are Represented by Two Female Senators
Senators Diane Feinstein (D) and Barbara Boxer (D), California
Senators Olympia Snowe (R) and Susan Collins (R), Maine
Senators Patty Murray (D) and Maria Cantwell (D), Washington
Condoleeza Rice, National Security Advisor & Secretary of State
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi
Senator Kay Bailey Hutcheson, Republican, Texas 2008 Vice Presidential Nominee?
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat, New York 2008 Presidential Nominee?