Muriel Fox led the fight to gain women’s rights. Sixty years later she’ll tell you how to keep them.
Had it not been for Muriel Fox and the National Organization of Women (NOW) starting in the 1960s, women today would not be able to apply for a credit card, get a car loan, or be approved for a mortgage without their husbands' signatures. The most highly educated women could only apply for secretarial jobs, even when their skills exceeded those of their male colleagues. Advertising reinforced stereotypes of women as housewives expected to take care of the kids, keep the kitchen clean, and pamper their husbands. But thanks to the advocacy of women like PR counselor Muriel Fox, a co-founder of NOW, women were eventually allowed to succeed as professionals in the workplace.
This evening will be an opportunity to hear Muriel Fox’s account of her life as a true revolutionary and share her vision as the very rights she fought to secure for women are at risk of being stripped away. Dr. Caryn Medved of Baruch College will interview Fox on this topic.
“When we started NOW, we knew the world needed a civil rights organization, some of us called it an NAACP for women, to work for women’s rights. And that’s one reason it exploded so powerfully—because it was long overdue, in some ways it was centuries overdue.” —Muriel Fox