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As many commentators have noted, 2010 is shaping up to be the year of the Republican woman. According to Center for American Women and Politics, 14 Republican women have thrown their girdles into the ring for the U.S. Senate and 94 for the House of Representatives. According to CAWP director Debbie Walsh, 60 of the 106 females who are challenging House incumbents are Republicans.
There is a conscious effort being made on the part of a lot of conservative women politicians to be using this word, feminist, Carrie Lukas, vice-president and director of policy for the conservative Independent Womens Forum, told The Daily Caller. But they are offering a very different brand of liberation than what is usually associated with the term, which has really become, over the last few decades, associated with groups like NOW [National Organization for Women], which are essentially indistinguishable from the Democratic Party and are more about big government than women.
NOW executive vice-president, Bonnie Grabenhofer, told The Daily Caller that to her, feminism is a social justice movement aimed at getting social, political, and economic equality for women. We work for the advancement of women on multiple fronts.
Read more: Conservatives try to claim the term feminist as their own | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment
Conservatives try to claim the term feminist as their own | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment
Is feminism simply about abortion or about empowering women in the workplace and politics?