Word: friedans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Women's Liberation, Betty Friedan, flew to Rome last week on the eve of the first meeting of the Vatican's special study commission on the role of women in society. Friedan spent four minutes in a private audience with Pope Paul VI, urging him to accord women "personhood." The Pope thanked her for the work she had done on behalf of women and accepted as a gift a brass Women's Lib symbol. Said Friedan to the Pope: "As you see, this makes a different kind of cross." Friedan avoided dogmatic issues like birth control...
Worth. The old stars-Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug and Betty Friedan-willingly turned the podium over to some fresher faces. Among them: Philadelphia Councilwoman Dr. Ethel Allen ("I'm what's known as Philadelphia's fat Shirley Chisholm"), Colorado's new Democratic U.S. Representative, Pat Schroeder, 32, the mother of two preschoolers, and Baltimore Councilwoman Barbara Mikulski, who made a strong and witty plea that the convention not forget the blue-collar woman...
...Friedan credited the Women's Political Caucus groups, which were formed a year later, with increasing the number of women delegates at the Democratic and Republican conventions...
...Friedan charged that the McGovern headquarters used "extreme intimidation" to change 200 votes against the abortion plank written by women delegates...
Women also made strides in the recent state elections, Friedan said. "Where there were no women in the New York State Senate, there are now three...