Really, that is the point I was trying to make when I talked about the history of the advancement. The advancements we have made over the last century have come through advocacy. Women got the vote because of advocacy. So many of the member groups of the Women's Future Fund--like LEAF, like NAWL, like Media Watch--that have advocated for systemic change, for policy and legislative change that would affect all women can't show how this is going to make this woman's life better right this minute, but in fact that advocacy work helps all women and changes all our rights. Without advocacy as part of what Status of Women funds, the kinds of progress that we have made in the last century will not be replicated. The very removal of the word “advocacy” and the word “equality” suggests that there's no understanding of how that change happens. It seems so fundamental that the change happens—
On February 7th, 2007. See this statement in context.