It’s probably worth noting that in Ireland, the President is the Head of State but not the Head of Government. The President has some powers beyond the ceremonial (e.g., the power to pardon or commute sentences), but real power rests with the Taoiseach (Prime Minister), and no woman has ever held that position in Ireland. However the current Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) is female.
Campbell didn’t lose it…she had no chance to lose it.
Her predecessor, Brian Mulrooney, lost it.
Or rather, the party, under his leadership, pissed off a rather large portion of the Canadian public.
Campbell just had the misfortune to be in charge when the backlash had a chance to hit.
Wendell-
>> Um what about Cady Stanton fredrick Douglas, and Susan B.
>> Anthony in the late 1800’s?
>The women’s liberation movement of the early '70’s, which
>advocated women actually reaching political offices and
>important professions, and in large numbers, is not the
>same as the suffragists, which advocated women being given
>the vote and being given legal status to own property and >
>such. The overall women’s movement, I contend, had stalled >by the '50’s.
I understand your point but I think you are ovelooking how radical the idea of women sufurage was in the 1800’s to 1900’s. I think compared to the sufragists(voting), flappers(sex), and “Rosie the Riviter”(jobs) women in the 70’s did little to advance thier cause. They simply stood on the shoulders of those who came before them.
Political change happens in cycles, so the retrenchment of the 50’s is not suprising. This 50’s lifestyle is also over rated. Most people did not live like Ozzie and Harriet.
john_e_wagner writes:
> Most people did not live like Ozzie and Harriet.
In the sense that people in the '50’s didn’t live in the way that they were portrayed on TV in the '50’s, yes. Most people today don’t live in the way that people are portrayed on TV today either.
Yes, it’s true that in the '50’s there were more divorced families, more families in which the mother worked, and more families that were considerably poorer than those protrayed on '50’s TV shows. It’s still true that relatively few women then had jobs with much power or were in political office.
Let’s just say that women in the '70’s through the '90’s fought different sorts of battles than did the suffragists or the “Rosie the Riveters”. Who was more important or more courageous is not something I’m capable of answering.
Hmm, this thread is turning into the battle of the all-star Wagners.