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Conservative women played a key role in the Tea Party movement, often adopting populist rhetoric reminiscent of the "housewife populism" of the 1950s and 1960s. These women, most notably Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, attacked Barack Obama as an outsider and claimed to represent the interests of "Joe Six Pack."
National conservative parties support traditional family values, gender roles and the public role of religion, [5] [28] being critical of the separation of church and state. According to the Austrian political scientist Sieglinde Rosenberger, "national conservatism praises the family as a home and a center of identity, solidarity, and tradition ...
The Forum has a "Teen Eagles" program for children ages 13–19, and "Eagle Forum Collegians" for conservative-minded college students. [5] Phyllis Schlafly's son, Andrew Schlafly, started Conservapedia , a wiki-based encyclopedia project, with students from an "Eagle Forum University" project.
Some commentators refer to social conservatism and renewed conservative grassroots activism as a reaction to the counterculture and cultural upheaval of the 1960s–1970s. [58] A notable event regarding social policy in the 1970s was the passage of Roe v. Wade in 1973 which recognized a legal right to abortion. [59]
The Women's Equity Action League (WEAL) was formed originally by some of the more conservative members of the National Organization for Women (NOW) when NOW was viewed as radical. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] The members who founded WEAL focused on employment and education, and shunned issues of contraception and abortion. [ 43 ]
Schlafly was the aunt of conservative anti-feminist author Suzanne Venker; together they wrote The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know – and Men Can't Say. [99] Schlafly died of cancer on September 5, 2016, at her home in Ladue, Missouri, at the age of 92. [85] [100]
In Linda K. Kerber's article "The Republican Mother: Women and the Enlightenment – An American Perspective", she compared republican motherhood to the Spartan model of childhood, [1] where children are raised to value patriotism and the sacrificing of their own needs for the greater good of the country.
Conservative women were mobilized in the 1970s by Phyllis Schlafly in an effort to stop ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution. The ERA had seemed a noncontroversial effort to provide legal equality when it easily passed Congress in 1972 and quickly was ratified by 28 of the necessary 38 states.