1961- Eleanor Roosevelt-Chair of Presidents Commission on the Status of Women
Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the
U.S. from 1933-1945 and maintained a prominent role as an advocate for civil
rights. After her husband's death in 1945, she continued to be an
internationally prominent author and speaker for the New Deal coalition. She
was a suffragist who worked to enhance the status of working women, although
she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely
affect women. In the 1940s, she was one of the co-founders of Freedom House and
supported the formation of the United Nations. Eleanor Roosevelt founded the UN
Association of the United States in 1943 to advance support for the formation
of the UN. She was a delegate to the UN General Assembly from 1945 and 1952, a
job for which she was appointed by President Harry S. Truman and confirmed by
the United States Congress. During her time at the United Nations chaired the
committee that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
President Truman called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute
to her human rights achievements.
In 1961 JFK appointed her to chair the Presidential Commission on the
Status of Women.
1964- Martha Griffith-Made sure the Civil Rights Act included women
1966- NOW
Betty Friedan-The Feminine Mystique
Shirley Chisholm became the first black congresswoman and for
seven terms represented New York State in the House. Chisholm earned Master's
degree in elementary education from Columbia University after which she served
as director of the Hamilton-Madison Child Care Center from 1953 to 1959 and
then as an educational consultant to New York City's Bureau of Child Welfare
from 1959 to 1964. In 1969 she became
the first black Congresswoman. Chisholm
was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus. She ran for the Democratic nomination for
president in 1972. Throughout her political career Chisholm fought for
education opportunities and social justice. She left congress in 1983 to teach
and lecture. She is the author of two books, Unbought and Unbossed
(1970) and The Good Fight (1973
1971-National Women's Political Caucus
Congresswoman Bella Abzug
Betty Friedan
1972 -A. Representative Patricia Schroeder (D-Colorado) 1st woman in congress for Colorado
Author- 24 years of House Work and the Place is Still a Mess
Patricia Schroeder
went to Harvard Law School, one of only 15 women in a class of more than 500
men. She earned her J.D. in 1964 and moved to Denver, Colorado with her
husband, James. Schroeder worked for the
National Labor Relations Board and then Planned Parenthood before her husband
in 1972 encouraged her to run as a Democrat to challenge an incumbent Republican
for the House seat representing Colorado's First Congressional District. She
became the first woman elected to congress from Colorado. The mother of two young children at the time
she was elected to the House, Schroeder went on to serve 12 terms, retiring
from Congress undefeated in 1997. For a brief period of time in 1986, she ran
for President but withdrew for lack of funds despite the fact that she ranked
third in a Time magazine poll. Schroeder was the primary backer of the Family
and medical Leave Act of 1993. Schroeder
is the author of "24 Years of House Work...and the Place Is Still a
Mess" (Andrews McMeel, 1998).
B. Phyllis Schlaffly-Author, Republican political activist
Stop the ERA campaign
D. Jean Westwood- 1st woman Chairperson of the Democratic National Committee
1974- Mary Louise Smith-1st woman Chairperson of the Republican National Committee
1977-Congresswoman Bella Abzug- Appointed by President Jimmy Carter as head of the National Women's Conference
1978- A. Nancy Landon Kassebaum-1st elected female US
Senator, R-Kansas
B. Dianne Feinstein-San Francisco Mayor
1981-Sandra Day O'Connor- 1st woman Supreme Court Justice, appointed by President Ronald Reagan
Sandra
Day O’Connor received her degree from Stanford University law school in
1952. She worked for the county attorney
for California's San Mateo County for free just get her foot in the door as
there were few jobs available for women attorneys at that time. She was soon hired as the deputy county
attorney. From 1954 to 1957, O'Connor
served as a civilian lawyer for the Quartermaster Masker Center in Frankfurt,
Germany. She returned home in 1958 and settled in Arizona. There she first
worked in private practice before becoming Arizona’s assistant attorney general
for four years, from 1965 to 1969. In 1969, Governor Jack Williams appointed her to the Arizona state
senate to fill a vacancy. O'Connor won re-election twice. In 1974 O'Connor ran
for the position of judge in the Maricopa County Superior Court. In 1979, she was selected to serve on the
state's court of appeals. Two years later,
President Ronald Reagan
nominated her for associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. O'Connor
received unanimous approval from the U.S. Senate. She broke new ground for
women in the legal field when she was sworn in as the first female justice on
the Supreme Court. As a justice,
O'Connor was as a key swing vote in many important cases, including the
upholding of Roe v. Wade. She retired in 2006, after serving for 24
years.
1984-Geraldine Ferraro-1st female Vice-Presidential candidate for a major political party
1985-Emily's List-A political fundraising organization founded by Ellen Malcolm. Purpose is to elect progressive women Democrats to office.
1988- Democratic National Convention-Keynote speaker
Ann Richards-D-Texas, State Treasurer
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