This artifact is shared in partnership with the Museum of Public Relations.
On Oct. 29, 1966, greater than 300 folks got here collectively to announce the formation of a brand new group referred to as Nationwide Group for Ladies (NOW). Muriel Fox, co-founder and press contact on the time, labored carefully alongside Betty Friedan, writer of “The Female Mystique,” to kind the legendary group.
Fox, a feminist icon in her personal proper, was born in 1928. She served as information editor at WKCR, Columbia College’s radio station, earlier than graduating from Barnard Faculty in 1948. A couple of years after school, Fox utilized for a place as a author at Carl Byoir and Associates,the world’s largest public relations company within the Fifties, however was initially rejected as they “didn’t rent girls writers.” However Fox endured and on the age of 26, she turned not solely the agency’s first feminine vp however a trailblazer for the subsequent generations of ladies in PR.
An unique copy of the total 5-page press launch asserting the formation of NOW, written by Fox, is housed by the Museum of Public in downtown Manhattan.
Components learn:
“Greater than 300 women and men have shaped a brand new motion group referred to as Nationwide Group for Ladies (NOW), to work for ‘true equality for all girls in America’ and ‘a totally equal partnership of the sexes, as part of the world-wide revolution of human rights.’
“We don’t settle for,” the assertion says, “the token appointment of some girls to high-level positions in authorities and trade as an alternative choice to a critical persevering with effort to recruit and advance girls in response to their particular person skills.”
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