Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 19. Oktober 1945 |
Geburtsort | Oak Park, Illinois, US |
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Beschreibung | Patricia Ireland (born October 19, 1945) is an American administrator and feminist. She served as president of the National Organization for Women from 1991 to 2001 and published an autobiography, What Women Want, in 1996. |
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.
I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
