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The Women's Revolution: How We Changed Your Life, with Muriel Fox

Thursday, September 26, 2024 7-8:30 p.m.

Location:
Seelye Hall 106
For:
Open to the Public

National Organization for Women’s co-founder Muriel Fox will offer firsthand stories of NOW’s fight to pass and enforce laws prohibiting discrimination in employment, education, housing, credit and more. Fox worked closely with Betty Friedan to create NOW, serving as the organization’s public relations director, vice president, chair of the board and National Advisory Committee chair. She was co-founder and president of NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. Fox will share new memoir that documents NOW’s efforts to pass and enforce sex discrimination laws in the face of government indifference and massive resistance from business interests.