Feminists were lukewarm to the presidency of Democrat Jimmy Carter (1977-1981). A social conservative, Carter was unsympathetic to the pro-choice movement and supported the law banning the use of federal funds for abortions. But Carter also appointed feminist Bella Abzug to head the planning commission for the 1977 International Women's Conference in Houston, Texas, and his wife, Rosalynn, a proponent of the ERA, attended. Even more important, his appointment of civil rights veteran Eleanor Holmes Norton to head the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission led to a significant increase in the federal government's commitment to challenging the workplace discrimination faced by minority men and by women.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Feminists were lukewarm to the presidency of Democrat Jimmy Carter (1977-1981). A social conservative, Carter was unsympathetic to the pro-choice movement and supported the law banning the use of federal funds for abortions. But Carter also appointed feminist Bella Abzug to head the planning commission for the 1977 International Women's Conference in Houston, Texas, and his wife, Rosalynn, a proponent of the ERA, attended. Even more important, his appointment of civil rights veteran Eleanor Holmes Norton to head the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission led to a significant increase in the federal government's commitment to challenging the workplace discrimination faced by minority men and by women." in the context of "Ellen DuBois and Lynn Dumenil, Through Women's Eyes: An American History (2005)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.