Newsweek ignores women’s faith |
| Published: September 19, 2008, 12:28 am |
| Tags: politics, social issues, religion, voting |
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Newsweek’s cover story this week focuses on the historical and social roots of female voters’ embrace, so far at least, of Gov. Sarah Palin. Its lede hints at the story’s theme: for all of the celebration in 1984 of Geraldine Ferraro as the first female on the ticket of a major presidential party, she was opposed by traditional female voters: [W]hat Ferraro was most surprised by, in focus groups convened after the election, was that stay-at-home mothers had been horrified by her candidacy, despite the fact that her three children were teenagers. “What we found was that some women felt intimidated,” she says now. How would their husbands view them if they were just staying at home rather than shattering glass ceilings and conquering the world? “I thought, ‘God almighty, how did that happen?’ . . . They thought it would somehow hurt them. That if I could do all these things — be a supermom or whatever — how would it look for [ Full article ] |
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