But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all.
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Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
Women politicians take their job seriously and accomplish their duties diligently and sensitively. Only they can understand the problems of women and act as a sounding board for their concerns.
The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.
You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.
We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.
Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.
Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.
It's okay, when we as women are in a serving role. But it's not okay, it appears, still, when we have full access to power.
I look forward to the day when there are more women politicians accepted in their own right and not as 'women politicians.'
What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.
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