Podcast: Heath Lee on the Wives of American Prisoners of War in Vietnam
President Nixon meets with POW wives (left to right) Carole Hansen, Louise Mulligan, Sybil Stockdale, Andrea Rander, and Mary Mearns in December 1969 (Richard Nixon Presidential Library). League of Wives: […]
Women’s History Month: Outstanding Women from Nixon Administration to be Recognized
President Nixon and staff assistant Barbara Hackman Franklin, who was responsible for increasing the numbers of women in top-level, policy-making government jobs. WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH: OUTSTANDING WOMEN FROM NIXON […]
Title IX: 37 Words That Changed Everything
[youtube https://youtu.be/5kNG78T9N5c] On June 23, 1972, President Nixon signed Title IX into law — effectively barring sex discrimination in school sports and academics.
President Nixon and Title IX
As UConn and Syracuse face off tonight in the 2016 NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship, we look back on President Nixon’s signing of Title IX. As a result of the groundbreaking […]
The Legislative Push for Equality in the Workplace
President Nixon appointed Barbara Franklin to oversee efforts at appointing more women to high-level positions in government. In the final months leading up to the 1972 election, President Nixon signed […]
A Matter of Simple Justice
On October 1, 1969, President Nixon established the President’s Task Force on Women’s Rights and Responsibilities to study the status of women in American life and to recommend what could […]
Enter Barbara Hackman Franklin
In a memorandum to the heads of the executive departments and agencies dated April 21, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced a program to recruit top women for mid- and high-level […]
Changing Gender Roles and the Equal Rights Amendments
Historically speaking, women have been consigned to the confines of the private, domestic sphere; tradition dictates that women are the homemaker, the caregiver, and the mother. However, how has this […]
Advancing Women in the Federal Government
Calls from American women from all walks of life for an increased presence of women in the federal government came as early as President Nixon’s first inauguration. The head of […]
