Eleanor Smeal, Peg Yorkin, Toni Carabillo, Judith Meuli,
and Kathy Spillar found the Feminist Majority in the fall of 1987.
The purpose is to promote equality for women and men, non-violence,
social justice and economic development and to enhance feminist
participation in public policy. The mission is to empower feminists,
who are the majority, and to win equality for women at the decision-making
tables of the state, nation, and the world.
Feminist Majority President Eleanor Smeal, Board Chair
Peg Yorkin, and National Coordinator Kathy Spillar
lead a fact-finding trip to European and Scandinavian countries.
They meet with women's rights leaders and public officials to
discuss strategies to put more women in power and the greater
success women in these countries have had in obtaining political
representation for women.
NEW INITIATIVE --The organization immediately launches
the Feminization of Power Tour in 11 states and 39 cities
to increase the numbers of women running for and winning elective
office.
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Eleanor Smeal, Molly Yard, Peg Yorkin
and campaign members and supporters collect pledges for the
Feminization of Power campaign. |
The Feminist Majority releases a new study that reveals that
at the present rate of growth of women in Congress it will take
until the year 2333 for women to achieve equality in Congress
and until the year 2038 for women to achieve equality in the state
legislatures. Women are 5% of Congress and 15.6% of the state
legislatures. Feminist Majority Foundation promotes "5%" button
to raise awareness of this grave disparity in political power.
The year 2333 is widely quoted and the perspective of women making
gradual gains is radically altered forever. Over the course of
the five year campaign, l987 -1992, some 685 women's groups across
the nation endorse the campaign and receive Feminization of Power
materials. Increasing representation of women in elective office
moves to the top of the women's movement agenda.
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NEW PLEDGE - Participants at Feminization of Power
events proudly proclaim in the tradition of the suffragists:
"I pledge not to work for, nor support with my vote, money,
or time, any candidate who does not support and work for women's
rights and feminist principles." |
Feminist Majority develops Feminist Agenda which begins
with an historical summary of feminist activity since the first
Women's Rights Convention, in Seneca Falls, New York, l848. The
Agenda is based upon the National Plan of Action of the National
Women's Conference, Houston, Texas in 1978.
The Feminist Majority Foundation
1987-89 | 1990
| 1991 | 1992
| 1993 | 1994
| 1995 | 1996
| 1997 | 1998
| 1999 | 2000
The Feminist Majority
1987-88 | 1989 | 1990
| 1991 | 1992
| 1993 | 1994
| 1995-96 | 1997
| 1998 | 1999
| 2000
Chronology Index
