Muriel Fox, one of the co-founders of the National Organization for Women , offers firsthand stories of NOW’s fight to pass and enforce laws prohibiting discrimination in employment, education, housing, credit and more.
Fox worked closely with Betty Friedan to create NOW, serving as the organization’s public relations director, vice president, chair of the board and National Advisory Committee chair. She was the co-founder and president of NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. Fox’s new memoir documents NOW’s efforts to pass and enforce sex discrimination laws in the face of government indifference and massive resistance from business interests.
We would have achieved so much more if we weren’t fighting among ourselves. It’s a very unfortunate part of our history. People want everyone else to believe exactly what they believe. They feel so deeply about it that they don’t listen to others. There was also trashing in our movement: attacks on women who were in the limelight. Gloria Steinem was one of the greatest victims of trashing while she was doing so much for the feminist cause.
With all that’s at stake for equality, we are redoubling our commitment for the next 50 years. In turn, we need your help,Louisiana Passes Law Requiring Public Schools to Display the Ten Commandments in Classrooms
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