Phyllis manages to do three (four if you count her action at the end):
After wowing the crowd in her patriotic bikini, she manages to get one over the passive-aggressive Arlene Crane in front of her husband when he asks her to talk on his show and he tells her he'd like to see her in that bikini right in front of Arlene. Point one for Phyllis. Bitchy political wife, zero.
On Crane's show, The Conservative Viewpoint, after dealing with Crane making sexist comments about her appearance and her intelligence, she manages to school him on matters of diplomacy and arms control to his face on television.
After being forced into bed by Fred after a long day at work and he refuses to let her campaign for Congress again, she gets him back at dinner when her dinner guests ask her about running for office again, when she answers that she cannot because she will be moving her mother into their household and she will be occupied and does this while holding her young daughter Anne like a shield/symbol and sips tea cooly when a flustered but polite Fred concedes. Phyllis, one. Misogynistic husband, zero.
After her rousing speech against Women's Liberation at the Mother-Daughter luncheon at the Daughters of American Revolution meeting, she renews her newsletter and starts publishing it and mailing it out to her subscribers (who are as far as Louisiana and California).
Shirley Chisholm's appearances:
First when Phyllis goes to Washington and sees Shirley being interviewed by a reporter about how female helplessness is a construct that is used to keep women down and from earning a decent living to the point of waitresses being verboten from working the hours that clients would tip the highest while those same hours have charwomen (a now antiquated term for female janitorial staff) work with no safety and little pay for strenuous work.
To Willie's delight, Chisholm announcing her candidacy for President. Also a Real Life example as it was the first time a woman of color, especially a black woman, has done so.
The founding of the Women's Political Caucus is this in a nutshell and it's illuminated how revolutionary how feminist women from both sides of the aisle form a group that inform D.C. of the brevity of women's issues.
Gloria
Gloria has a few as befitting her episode:
Starting Ms. magazine and her launch party.
Handling the often ignorant questions about her magazine, like "Who is that octupus lady?" before informing the reporter that it's the Hindu goddess Kali being representation for housewives who are overworked and underappreciated and under-respected.
Gloria managing to figure Schalfly's followers after barely learning about her, with both empathy and critique about how they have internalized the patriarchy and fear losing the love of their men.
Gloria agreeing to become more prominent in the media and persuading McGovern to include Reproductive Freedom in his platform.
Phyllis has a few:
She gets the ladies to go on a phone-call and letter writing campaign to get her on a tv show before getting on the popular "Phil Donahue show".
She manages to stir up more supporters while on air, even being praised as "a dynamo".
She launches a bread and jam campaign where she and the conservative housewives storm the Illinois capitol building (despite later finding out that it wasn't necessary).
Shirley
Betty
Phyllis & Fred & Brenda & Marc
Jill
Bella
Houston
The moment where Betty shows up to show last minute support for the Lesbian rights resolution and when a huge majority of the convention stood up to approve the resolution and the crowd (except for the STOP ERA members) stood up and cheered and Midge had to suppress tears of joy.
Reagan
Alice's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Phyllis at the Gala, in front of adoring followers, about how cruel she has been to Alice (Condescending Compassion) and to Pamela (urging her to be submissive to Kevin so he'd treat her better.
Earlier we see Alice, while being stone-faced angry at Phyllis, be assertive with her husband Buck who chides her for drinking (she didn't get drunk) and she gives him a dry "it's a party" which shuts him down.
After being ignored by President Carter for over a year (even after the convention in Houston) and having to negotiate for a two-hour meeting with him rather than a 15 minute photo op and Bella being unceremoniously fired by him, Gloria organizes a mass resignation (with all 22 women from the Women's Commission agreeing, including Jill, Carmen, Audrey, and Midge) and tells one of Carter's "Georgia Boys":
Gloria: We are the ones that are going to have a press conference. We are going to tell the American people how disappointed we are with the President's stand on women's issues. He is going to have to do something for us to get us to vote for him. We're no longer a captive audience.
Alice arriving to drop off Anne at the Schlafly house, in a pantsuit and a paying job, to Phyllis's shock. When Alice explains that earning her own money was empowering and Phyllis sputtered, "You used to feel empowered by me" and Alice shuts her down gently before driving off with a smile on her face:
