https://womenalliance.org/leap-year-tradition/ Equal Rights – Equal Responsibilities Fri, 10 May 2024 08:30:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 https://womenalliance.org/leap-year-tradition/#comment-1526 Fri, 10 May 2024 08:30:36 +0000 https://womenalliance.org/?p=19211#comment-1526 8 March has more success, but it is not enough!

]]> https://womenalliance.org/leap-year-tradition/#comment-1424 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 22:55:59 +0000 https://womenalliance.org/?p=19211#comment-1424 Some might read this and ask, what is it doing on a feminist website? Is it only fluff? This opinion piece has serious things to say about the status of women and their role in male-female relationships not having evolved that much over the decades. Also the lost opportunity for women in power when their appointment to City Council, Fire and Police Departments, things that are only now becoming commonplace, was not taken advantage of when the opportunity presented itself.
It is quite likely that the men choosing women for those one-day positions were careful not to appoint any women’s rights advocates and women taking part in the pseudo-appointments had few if any feminist ambitions. Even if they had tried in some small way to improve women’s access to power, they understood that anything they did while “in office” would be undone immediately on March 1st.

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