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Center for American Progress

New Study: "A Woman's Nation Changes Everything"

By Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

October 16, 2009 - 7:00am

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A lot has changed since John F. Kennedy put Eleanor Roosevelt at the
head of the very first Commission on the Status of Women. According to
Anthropologist Margaret Mead, who co-edited the final report of that
organization, "the climate of opinion is turning against the idea that
homemaking is the only form of feminine achievement."


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