On International Women’s Day, Dorothy Sue Cobble previews her book on the global history of U.S. feminism in the 20th century, including some of the lesser-known women who shaped its politics.
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Dorothy Sue Cobble previews her book on the global history of U.S. feminism in the 20th century
Esther Peterson isn’t a household name like Susan B. Anthony or Rosa Parks, but she should be.
A one-time teacher and union organizer, Peterson served as the highest-ranking woman in John F. Kennedy’s White House and established the President’s Commission on the Status of Women. She was the driving force behind the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and an eloquent, effective advocate for expanded social security and decent, better-paying jobs for all.
In later years, Peterson became a leading voice for consumers and a staunch proponent of truth in advertising. That sell-by date on your milk and those nutrition facts on your cereal? You can thank her for those.
after the 60s, people began to take a more holistic view of the environment. everybody now fundamentally believes that they ve got a right to a healthy, safe environment. we explored so many blind alleys in the 1960s that perhaps we ve put ourselves on a platform from which we can more constructively attack the problems which we have now begun to identify. now, if that happens in the decades to come, i should not be surprised if historians didn t date its beginning in this troubled ten years we ve just gone through. these are the cutaways for esther peterson, assistant secretary of labor. highest ranking woman in the federal government. do you think that the american public is ready to accept a woman in the white house? i think i think that when
and we re not going to help that when we see a leader of a country like syria, assad, who has killed so many people, who we would not want to support to stay in that position, but he s being challenged by people who we know are involved with al qaeda and al qaeda-type groups and who want to subjew gait subjugate ms other muslims, christians, jews, do we really want to help either one of those? you know, those back before they had to teach to the test, people learned a little bit about history, and they had to learn about world war i, and you don t find enough people who can talk intelligently about world war i anymore. in fact, we see the polls who say there are people who can name the three stooges that can name the three branches of government, because the tests they ve been teaching to involves a federal all everyone has the same kind of requirements. we were doing better when there were local requirements. local people knew best. back when people were learning about h
consumer financial protection agency is passed up for the job it is a senate run in elizabeth warren of s future? phone hackingh scandal media mogul rupert murdoch called before a committee of british parliament. do you have a responsibility? no. captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org here is the deal as we require this program, we don t know how the debt ceiling business is going to play out over the weekend, but we have to put a program on the air, so here goes. president obama said he hopes to elevate the tone of her political discourse in washington. the way we run campaigns, the demonization of what the other side, i think that is broken down some of the trust and washington. anyone who witnessed his reckless spending ahabits the past 2.5 years or sat across the negotiating table the past few weeks could be forgiven for being skeptical of his recent attempts to come across as a fiscal moderate. that is senate minority leader mitch