Women’s Affairs

President Nixon meets with POW wives (left to right) Carole Hansen, Louise Mulligan, Sybil Stockdale, Andrea Rander, and Mary Mearns …read more

President Nixon and staff assistant Barbara Hackman Franklin, who was responsible for increasing the numbers of women in top-level, policy-making …read more

On June 23, 1972, President Nixon signed Title IX into law — effectively barring sex discrimination in school sports and …read more

As UConn and Syracuse face off tonight in the 2016 NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship, we look back on President Nixon’s …read more

President Nixon appointed Barbara Franklin to oversee efforts at appointing more women to high-level positions in government. In the final months …read more

On October 1, 1969, President Nixon established the President’s Task Force on Women’s Rights and Responsibilities to study the status …read more

In a memorandum to the heads of the executive departments and agencies dated April 21, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced …read more

Historically speaking, women have been consigned to the confines of the private, domestic sphere; tradition dictates that women are the …read more

Calls from American women from all walks of life for an increased presence of women in the federal government came …read more