It was a bloodless coup. It happened under the penumbra of the law. In
fact chief justice William Rehnquist presided at the event. The date was
January 20, 1993.
The recent November elections had announced the Year of the Woman, with
Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Carol Moseley Braun, and Patty Murray
all sweeping into the U.S. Senate.
Everyone knew the federal bureaucracy was a stronghold for those
domineering patriarchs. Obviously that needed to change.
First, equal justice had to be turned into feminist justice. So the
Rodham-Clinton co-presidency brought in Janet Reno to direct the
Department of Justice. The NOW Legal Defense Fund hailed the dowdy Reno
as "a stellar attorney with an extraordinary track record."
Not to be outdone, the Department of Education brought in radical
chicana Norma Cantu to head up its civil rights office. Cantu made
"proportionality" the only test for Title IX compliance. Ten years
later, 80,000 slots for male athletes had been eliminated from more than
350 men's sports teams.
Next, the gender wage gap had to be fixed, so Karen Nussbaum was named
director of the Women's Bureau at the Labor Department. With Hillary
perched approvingly at her side, Nussbaum issued the "Working Women
Count!" report. The study revealed that many working women believe "I do
not get paid what I think my job is worth."
Welcome to the real world, ladies.
Over at the Department of Defense, SecDef Les Aspin was given marching
orders to clean up the lingering fallout from the Navy aviators'
Tailhook fiasco. So just three months after he took office, Aspin issued
a historic order: "The services shall permit women to compete for
assignments in aircraft, including aircraft engaged in combat missions."
Then the blue-ribbon Department Advisory Committee on Women in the
Services got into the act. The group opted to extend Aspin's order,
pushing for female involvement in submarine crews, Multiple Launch
Rocket Systems jobs, and Special Operations Forces. Before long the
group - officially designated as DACOWITS - came to be known as
"Lack-o-Wits."
With all the liberated single women clamoring for taxpayer-funded
husband substitutes, the next order of business was to expand the Nanny
State. So Hillary looked to her gal-pal Donna Shalala to head up the
sprawling Department of Health and Human Services.
Shalala had earlier turned the Hunter College women's studies program
into a radical feminist outpost. Within months of her appointment,
Shalala would lend
credence to the porker about medical research being
conducted from the "white male point of view."
But Hillary's greatest obsession was the promotion of international
feminism. So she leaned on Bill to nominate Madeleine Albright to the
United Nations ambassador post.
During her stint at the U.N. and later as Secretary of State, Albright
was a tireless advocate for abortion on demand. Hitting all the right
notes, she once claimed, "our voluntary family planning programs serve
our broader interests by elevating the status of women, reducing the
flow of refugees, protecting the environment, and promoting economic
growth."
The U.N. had slated its Conference on Women to be held in China in
September 1995. Albright was named to chair the U.S. Delegation, and
Hillary Clinton was tabbed to deliver the keynote speech
Afterwards, president Clinton created the President's Interagency
Council on Women. The Council's mission was to "follow up on U.S.
commitments made at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women" - meaning
that whatever promises Albright had made during her Beijing junket
should now be imposed by fiat on the rest of us.
The high-flying Council was headed by the triumvirate of Hillary Rodham
Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and Donna Shalala. Meeting monthly, reps
from all the top-level federal agencies were instructed to implement the
Beijing
Platform for Action.
One of the Council's Work Groups was tasked to "develop procedures that
ensure the integration of a gender perspective into the policies and
operations of government so that different impacts on men and women may
be determined and inequities addressed." That's fem-speak for "pressure
the male geezers to retire, so women can come in and run the show."
Sure enough, from 1994 to 2002 the number of male professional workers
in the federal government fell by 17%, while the number of female
employees actually
rose. Laws such as the Violence Against Women Act and the Gender Equity in
Education Act were enacted. The federal government was soon beholden to
a far-reaching array of programs designed to promote the socialist
agenda of the U.N. Conference on Women.
And that's how a feminist cabal overthrew the entrenched federal
Patriarchy in eight short years.
Carey Roberts has
been published frequently in the Washington Times, Townhall.com,
LewRockwell.com, ifeminists.net, Intellectual Conservative, and
elsewhere. He is a staff reporter for the New Media Alliance.
