4.
How much harder will it be to eliminate the prejudice
against women? I am sure it will be a longer struggle.
Part of the problem is that women in America are much
more brainwashed
and content with their roles as second-class citizens
than blacks ever were. 5.
Let me explain. I have been active in politics for
more than twenty years. For
all but the last six, I have done the work
-- all the tedious details that make the difference
between victory and defeat on election day -- while
men reaped
the rewards, which
is almost invariably
the lot
of women in politics. 6.
It is still women -- about three million volunteers
-- who do most of this work in the American political
world. The best any of them can hope for is the honor
of being district or county vice-chair-man, a kind
of separate-but-equal position with which a woman
is rewarded for years of faithful envelope stuffing
and card-party organizing. In such a job, she gets
a number of free trips to state and sometimes national
meetings and conventions, where her role is supposed
to be to vote the way her male chairman votes.
