Several Women's Equality Day events are planned across the country Thursday.
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In California, a great, great, great granddaughter of suffragist leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton will address a rally near the statehouse in Sacramento. In New York, the Susan B. Anthony List — it backs female candidates opposed to abortion — will host a forum on "pro-life feminism."
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Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, said the surge of women running as anti-abortion conservatives reflected a "war over who gets to define what feminism means."
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"There's an unsettling of the political apple cart," Dannenfelser said. "Sarah Palin kicked the door open, and a lot of women started going through."
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ffxiv gil, Elsewhere in New York, several women's rights leaders and liberal members of Congress will be speaking at a ceremony renaming a U.S. post office in Queens after Geraldine Ferraro, who in 1984 became the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket.
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ffxiv gil, Among the scheduled speakers is Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, who said Ferraro's poise and toughness had inspired many women to go into politics.
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However, O'Neill described the percentage of women in Congress as "abysmal"