Time Essay: WOMEN'S LIB: BEYOND SEXUAL POLITICS

ONE would think that Kate Millett or Germaine Greer were feeding the gentlemen their lines. More than 300 earnest women—ranging from Black Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm to Writer Gloria Steinem to Betty Smith, former vice chairman of Wisconsin Republicans—met in Washington last week to form a National Women's Political Caucus. Its goal: to seek out and promote candidates of either sex, preferably women, who will work to eliminate "sexism, racism, violence and poverty." And what was the reaction in San Clemente? Discussing a newspaper photograph of four of the caucus leaders, Secretary of State...

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