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Feminists in Politics: A Panel Analysis of the First National Women's Conference provides a systematic study of the impact of the National Women's Conference held in Houston, Texas, in November 1977, on the participants. It traces the past political activities of the conference participants; what they actually did during the conference; the impact of the conference on their commitment to political action in the future; and their aspirations for holding elected office in American politics or in organizations associated with the feminist movement. The volume begins by placing the IWY Commission

Feminists in Politics: A Panel Analysis of the First National Women's Conference provides a systematic study of the impact of the National Women's Conference held in Houston, Texas, in November 1977, on the participants. It traces the past political activities of the conference participants; what they actually did during the conference; the impact of the conference on their commitment to political action in the future; and their aspirations for holding elected office in American politics or in organizations associated with the feminist movement. The volume begins by placing the IWY Commission.

It is argued that what is new in US politics is not the gender gap in voting, which has existed for thirty years, but the fact that women are making successful bids for the power of public office. The proximate source of women's success at the polls is the emergence of political groups & coalitions formed during a decade of effort to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. The new political organizational structure is in turn rooted in demographic & economic changes that have stimulated a new form of attachment to the LF among women & a new form of gender solidarity in the workplace & polity. A discussion is provided of women's impact once they become a significant force, rather than a token presence in US politics. 37 References. HA.