Jean Peters : A feminist but a staunch Republican? Huh?

How can one be a feminist but be a staunch Republican who donates to conservative causes (according to Trivia)?

These inconsistencies annoy me. Likewise, it baffles me how her colleague Marilyn Monroe was a liberal Democrat and yet so willing to play degrading sexpot roles that arguably demeaned women.




RIP:
David Bowie (1947-2016)
Alan Rickman (1946-2016)
Prince (Rogers Nelson) (1958-2016)

I think that trivia entry means more a generic feminism such as espousing equality, rather than the more recent radical, almost anti-male feminism. After all, the first woman elected to the US House of Representatives was a Republican, the first woman to serve in a state legislature was a Republican, the first woman elected to a state office was a Republican, the first equal rights plank in a party platform came from the Republicans, the first woman in either major party to have her name placed in nomination at the convention for the office of president was a Republican, the first woman to be elected to the United States Senate in her own right (not having succeeded her husband or been previously appointed to fill a vacant position) was a Republican, the first woman representative to the United Nations was appointed by a Republican, the first woman US Supreme Court Justice was appointed by a Republican, and the first women to hold several cabinet positions were Republicans.

I generally don't like lists of "firsts," but the implication that a woman can't be a conservative Republican and an strong, accomplished female is a myth. It's been happening since the 1800s.

And Jean Peters was one of those women up until her death.

The Republcan history you listed is pre Barry Goldwater. The Dems and Rep basically shifted after the mid 60s.

Ronald Reagan was before Goldwater? Condi Rice? Libby Dole? Jean Kirkpatrick? My point was that it is wrong to suggest that a woman can't be strong, successful and accomplished in her own right and also be a conservative Republican.

In 1965 Reagan said if he had a vote in Congress, he would have opposed the CRA and the Voting Rights Act. Thankfully that old bigot didn't. Doles's husband was GOP. The others you named political appointees. The women who are in the GOP, don't invalidate my original point. http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158887