Womens political caucus boston

Lovely and Representative Patricia A. The Caucus also has a member Board of Directors. They will serve through the legislative session. There are 12 female Senators and 50 female State Representatives, all of whom are members of the Caucus. For the legislative session, the MCWL finalized a slate of:. Learn more about our priorities at the links above, and stay tuned for updates as we continue to work on all these priorities.

Learn about our past legislative accomplishments here. Watch the video here. The caucus aims to be a resource for all women in Massachusetts. She rapidly became tops in the company for sales and was so successful that the company asked her to train two new workers. Wilson said in , recalling the experience that propelled her into the women's movement.

She quit her job and in moved to Washington, where she helped found four state chapters of the National Women's Political Caucus, including the Northern Virginia chapter.

In , at age 29, she was elected to the first of two terms as chairwoman of the 77,member organization. She received a bachelor's degree in education, with an emphasis on special education, in and her master's degree in education in , both from the University of Missouri. After moving to Washington, she worked for three years as a social science research analyst with the US Department of Labor.

Her swift ascendancy in the women's movement was surprising not only because of her youth, but also because she was a Republican who grew up in a Republican family and who married a Republican right out of college. Attending the Republican National Convention while an expectant mother, she wore a ''prochoice" button, which caused a furor among antiabortionists.

In the run-up to the presidential election, she called President Reagan ''a dangerous man" and urged him not to seek a second term. She continued speaking out -- for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, for legal abortions, for equal pay, for the election of more women to political office. She was reluctant to switch parties but eventually did. Wilson, a Republican campaign consultant, ''she was a Baptist who went to church three times a week who left the reservation.