On Wednesday, July 1, a group of women calling themselves "United for New York" released a public letter to Representative Carolyn Maloney, asking her not to challenge Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in the 2010 Democratic Primary. The letter "applauded" Maloney's work on the "issues most important to women." However, the letter said, Read More
With a decision from the governor just days away, the list of prominent feminist types who have declared support for Caroline Kennedy to fill Hillary Clinton's Senate seat is a short one. Among the best-known are New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, 79-year-old Representative Louise Slaughter and former Kennedy White House correspondent Read More
In the June 5 special election for an Assembly seat on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the political action committee of the New York State chapter of the National Organization for Women is backing Democratic candidate Micah Kellner.
In a public statement, president Marcia Pappas of the group’s state PAC said, “We were very Read More
It was fitting that Betty Friedan, whose book The Feminine Mystique exploded through the suburbs when it was first published in 1963, was remembered at the Upper West Side’s Riverside Memorial Chapel, in the midst of elegant brownstones, where women who “opted out” of high-octane careers spend their days pushing $700 strollers toward Central Park. Read More
