In her first race for the Maryland House of Delegates in 1974, Connie Morella recalls, when her son stuck a people for morella bumper sticker on his locker at school, his classmates asked him what his father was running for. Twelve years later, in 1986, Mrs. Morella vied for Maryland’s eighth congressional seat. Although the 8th District, located just outside Washington, D.C., is heavily Democratic, the Republican Mrs. Morella got surprising support, capped by an endorsement from the powerfully liberal Washington Post. “Times have changed,” says Mrs. Morella, who won a striking victory on November 4. “Now, no matter what my sex, people know I can deliver, but when I started they worried whether I could take care of my kids and do the job.”
Connie Morella is right. Women in politics are on the march, and the way is clear. Consider:
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