Geraldine A. Ferraro ran with Walter Mondale as the Democratic nominee for vice president, becoming a symbol for women's equality. The candidacy of the former housewife, prosecutor and congresswoman was an attempt to turn the 'gender gap' of the 1980s to the Democrats' advantage.
Geraldine A. Ferraro, the savvy New York Democrat who was embraced as a symbol of women's equality in 1984 when she became the first woman nominated for vice president by a major party, died Saturday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She was 75.
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