‘Take Power’ Policy on Feminist Agenda

WASHINGTON — After years of battling for equal rights, Eleanor Smeal, former president of the National Organization for Women, says the answer is to put more women in office and punish candidates who do not support women’s rights.

Smeal unveiled an ambitious new program this week to do just that.

The program, under the auspices of the Fund for the Feminist Majority, will be built around a series of “Take the Power” organizing sessions across the country in homes, at work sites, on campuses and in community centers, Smeal said.

“In the 1990s, feminists will add another organizing tool--”Take the Power’ sessions. There we will help solve the problem by directly taking political power,” Smeal said.