| 11-06 TABLE of CONTENTS:
The "Gender Gap"
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Gabrielle Edwards.
Women and Men Voters Differ
The gender gap is where more than 60% of women
vote for a certain candidate while the men's support is less than 50%.
Beginning about 1992, for the first time since women began to vote in 1920,
the women's vote has been dramatically DIFFERENT from the men's, as much
as 20%!
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11-06 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 11-06-1784, Laure Junot, French writer
whose well known caustic memoirs concerning Napoleon Bonaparte and his
inner circle are now judged inaccurate. (Not deferential enough?)
B. 11-06-1797, Frances Ann Denny Drake, leading
American actress of her time.
B. 11-06-1904, Selena Royle, her screen career
eclipsed, she authored the tantalizing A Gringo's Guide to Mexican
Cooking.
B. 11-06-1906, Janet Gaynor, actor won
first ever Academy Award for her work in Sunrise, Seventh Heaven,
and Street Angel, 1927-28. Best known to contemporary screen buffs
for her work in A Star is Born (1937).
B. 11-06-1946, Sally Field, actor won Academy
Award for her work in Norma Rae (1979). Emmy awards for her work in TV
such as in The Flying Nun.
B. 11-06-955, Maria Shriver, TV personality
and broadcast journalist. Daughter of
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, niece of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline
Bouvier Kennedy Onassis who was, before her marriage, a Roving Photographer
for a well-known national magazine.
Event: 11-06-1984, Arlene Violet, a former
Roman Catholic nun, becomes the first woman to be elected Attorney General
of Rhode Island.
Event 11-06-1984, Madeline M. Kunin, by
a margin of 4,000 votes is elected governor of Vermont. Arlene Violet,
a former Roman Catholic nun, becomes the first woman to be elected Attorney
General of Rhode Island.
Event 11-06-1990, in an unprecedented move
that could have resulted in their imprisonment or execution by stoning,
50 Saudi Arabian women drove automobiles
for about a half hour before being arrested. They were turned over to male
relatives for discipline.
Later, during "Desert
Storm" American service women were forced to comply with the religious
regulations and were not allowed to drive military transport outside of
U.S. bases by order of the Bush administration. They were also not allowed
to wear short sleeves in keeping with Muslim religious law by order of
the General of the Army Colin Powell.
WiiN Supporter Margaret
Russell, writes: "The book Princess
by Jean Sasson, reports the rumor, neither officially confirmed or denied,
that one Saudi woman was executed by her father for driving because she
shamed the family. The father thought by executing the daughter, the religious
fanatics would leave the family in peace. What is reported as true by Sasson
is 'As a result of their bravery, their lives were devastated by their
actions: passports taken, jobs lost, and families harassed.' The women
were denounced as prostitutes and their names, addresses, and phone numbers
circulated."
Many feminist objected
to the U.S. military defending the Saudi "way of life," in Operation
Desert Storm.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
EDWARDS, GABRIELLE:
"... the concept of
motherhood in the United States is held in high esteem, glorified - so
much so that special-interest groups have taken it upon themselves to destroy
abortion clinics by bombing them or by harassing their patients.
"Yet, once motherhood becomes an established
fact, women who are heads of households are denied legislation that could
remove them from a chronic state of poverty."
--
Edwards, Gabrielle, Coping With Discrimination. New York: The Rosen
Publishing Group, 1986 and 1992. Summary: Examines the historical patterns
and results of prejudice and discrimination and their effects on such minorities
as homeless, blacks, women, homosexuals, and the handicapped.
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