"Patricia Ireland" is a United States/U.S. Public administration/administrator and feminism/feminist. She served as president of the National Organization for Women, from 1991 to 2001 and published an autobiography, What Women Want, in 1996.

Ireland attended DePauw University and obtained a Bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee in 1966 and a law degree from the University of Miami School of Law in 1975. She also attended Florida State University College of Law.

Before becoming an Attorney at law (United States)/attorney, Ireland worked as a flight attendant. She began her fight for women's rights in the 1960s when she discovered discrepancies in her insurance coverage. Her first victory came when the United States Department of Labor ruled in her favor, and she started her legal career doing volunteer work for the National Organization for Women.

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Hard cases make bad laws ... We have decided not to work with these disreputable right-wing organizations and individuals advancing [Jones'] cause.

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Now we are talking about real sexual predators, and we are now talking about people in power using that power to take advantage of women.

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When they say men should take responsibility, they really mean men should take control ... that men should be heads and masters of their families, and women should take a back seat. That is a very bad message as far as I am concerned.

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One of the things [NOW members] look for whenthey're looking for [work] is jobs where they're going toget better skills on computers, ... That's ahigher value, especially for the young women, than theimmediate pay they're going to be getting. We hear itwith great regularity.

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This is not just sexual harassment, if it's true. It's sexual assault, ... Late Edition.

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We do not intend to encourage higher courts to consider and possibly create legal precedent that would injure everyday women in the workplace, based on the allegations and evidence of a politically charged case.

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[Patricia Ireland, President of the National Organization for Women, also on the ground at Kennedy Space Center, sighed when I asked her about the convergence of the two events.] It has the potential to diminish the excitement ... And, at the same time, it reminds us that progress must go on. That it is bigger than any one connection to the past.

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