1970 White House Task Force on Women’s Rights and Responsibilities
Here is a story about the White House marking Women’s History Month with a 50-year progress report. According to stories, this was the “first comprehensive federal report on the status of women’ since 1963.” The reporting in this story is incorrect. The White House Task Force on Women’s Rights and Responsibilities also issued a report in 1970.
According to the Nixon Library:
“In January 1969, Richard Nixon took the oath of office as President. At one of President Nixon’s early press conferences, Ms. Vera Glaser stood amid a forest of male colleagues, raised her strong, clear voice, and asked:
“Mr. President, since you’ve been inaugurated, you have made approximately 200 presidential appointments, and only three of them have gone to women. Can we expect some more equitable recognition of women’s abilities, or are we going to remain the lost sex?”
The President seemed surprised, but he agreed
: “We’ll have to do something about that.” It was a promise he kept.
President Nixon’s pledge to Ms. Glaser triggered a chain of events that led to the appointment of a White House Task Force on Women’s Rights and Responsibilities. Virginia Allan, a well-known Republican businesswoman, chaired it, and Vera Glaser was among its members.”
Vera Glaser was a longtime political columnist whose work appeared in the women’s section. What is also interesting about the 1970 task force is that the White House initially refused to release it. SO, Glaser snuck a copy to Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson who published it in her section. Here is more about Glaser.
1970 White House Task Force on Women’s Rights and Responsibilities
Here is a story about the White House marking Women’s History Month with a 50-year progress report. According to stories, this was the “first comprehensive federal report on the status of women’ since 1963.” The reporting in this story is incorrect. The White House Task Force on Women’s Rights and Responsibilities also issued a report in 1970.
According to the Nixon Library:
“In January 1969, Richard Nixon took the oath of office as President. At one of President Nixon’s early press conferences, Ms. Vera Glaser stood amid a forest of male colleagues, raised her strong, clear voice, and asked:
“Mr. President, since you’ve been inaugurated, you have made approximately 200 presidential appointments, and only three of them have gone to women. Can we expect some more equitable recognition of women’s abilities, or are we going to remain the lost sex?”
The President seemed surprised, but he agreed
: “We’ll have to do something about that.” It was a promise he kept.
President Nixon’s pledge to Ms. Glaser triggered a chain of events that led to the appointment of a White House Task Force on Women’s Rights and Responsibilities. Virginia Allan, a well-known Republican businesswoman, chaired it, and Vera Glaser was among its members.”
Vera Glaser was a longtime political columnist whose work appeared in the women’s section. What is also interesting about the 1970 task force is that the White House initially refused to release it. SO, Glaser snuck a copy to Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson who published it in her section. Here is more about Glaser.
