CARD 40 - Women's Rights and Suffrage

The Mission of the Independent Women's Forum is to affirm women's participation in and contributions to a free, self-governing society.

The Independent Women's Forum speaks for those who:

- Believe in individual liberty and responsibility for self-governance, the superiority of the market economy, and the imperative of equal opportunity for all.
- Respect and appreciate the differences between, and the complementary nature of, the two sexes.
- Affirm the family as the foundation of society.
- Believe women are capable of defining and asserting their interests and concerns in private and public life, and reject the false view that women are the victims of oppression.
- Believe political differences are best resolved at the ballot box, and therefore oppose court imposition of what the democratic process rejects.
- Endorse individual recognition and reward based on work and merit, without regard to group membership or classification.

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