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Article: Creeping progress for women.(United Nations Conference on Women; 75th anniversary of U.S. women's suffrage)(Editorial)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- October 1, 1995
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Seventy-five years ago, women in the United States finally won the right to vote, and in the last Presidential election, women cast 54 percent of the ballots. President Clinton, who possesses both a burning desire to be reelected and a grasp of basic math, celebrated the recent anniversary of women's suffrage. He also took the opportunity to endorse the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, which Hillary Rodham Clinton attended after much debate.
If the celebrations had a depressingly muted quality, it's because this is not the most auspicious historical moment for women around the world--or in this country for that matter. In many ways, our national ...