OPINION
Democrats complicit in GOP's anti-women agenda
April 09, 2012
April 09, 2012
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to make inroads in Congress
Obama team slams Romney, Walker on women's issues
Seeing an opening, Obama touts pro-women message
As various accounts have pointed out, the Republican Party for most of its history was broadly supportive of women's rights and aspirations, at any rate by the standards of the times. A Republican Congress endorsed the amendment giving women the vote in 1919, and 80 percent of the state legislatures that approved it were Republican-controlled. The party instituted gender-based affirmative action in 1940 by requiring the Republican National Committee to have one woman and one man from each state, decades
to make inroads in Congress
Obama team slams Romney, Walker on women's issues
Seeing an opening, Obama touts pro-women message
As various accounts have pointed out, the Republican Party for most of its history was broadly supportive of women's rights and aspirations, at any rate by the standards of the times. A Republican Congress endorsed the amendment giving women the vote in 1919, and 80 percent of the state legislatures that approved it were Republican-controlled. The party instituted gender-based affirmative action in 1940 by requiring the Republican National Committee to have one woman and one man from each state, decades
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