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East, Catherine, 183 , 191 , 192 , 193 ;
ERA and, 206
Eastwood, Mary, 183 , 185 , 186 , 192 ;
"Jane Crow and the Law," 202
Edelsberg, Herman, 187 , 189 , 190
Education of women:
degrees earned (1960-1968), 171 ;
during the 1950s, 90 ;
PCSW and, 154 -155;
postwar, 25
Edwards, India, 29 , 77 , 81 , 292 n;
on DNC's influence during Kennedy's administration, 79 ;
Truman's view of, 63 ;
women appointees and, 54 -56
EEOC. See Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Eisenhower, Dwight D.:
equal pay legislation, 48 -49, 89 ;
ERA position of, 33 -38;
political style of, 60 ;
presidency of, 69 ;
women appointees of, 53 , 58 -65, 78
Election of women, 29 -30
Ellickson, Katherine, 28 , 203 ;
PCSW and, 111 , 120
Employment of women:
in the civil service, 142 -146;
during the 1950s and 1960s, 89 -91;
postwar, 5 -6, 25 ;
in the private sector, 146 -151;
wartime, 3 -4
EO 10925 (equal employment opportunity), 147
EO 10980. See President's Commission on the Status of Women
EO 11246 (discrimination by federal contractors), 198 , 201 -202
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), 185 -191, 215 ;
membership of, 195 -196;
NOW's
EEOC (continued )
position on, 198 ;
protests against, 192 -196
Equal Pay Act (1963), 98 -105;
costs of enforcement of, 100 ;
enforcement of, 105 ;
final provisions of, 104 -105;
hearings on, 101 -103;
House passage of, 103 ;
introduction of, 100 ;
provisions of, 98 ;
Senate passage of, 103 ;
text of, 223 -224
Equal pay legislation:
background to, 40 -42;
defeat (1946) of, 45 ;
as FLSA amendment, 47 -51;
introduction of, 39 ;
Peterson's goals of, 87 ;
post-defeat activity, 45 -51;
provisions of, 42 -43;
public opinion polls regarding, 58 ;
state, 96 , 184 ;
support of, 44 -45
Equal pay legislation (1962), 89 -98;
comparable versus equal work in, 96 ;
context of, 89 -91;
hearing on, 95 ;
House endorsement of, 95 -96;
House passage of, 96 ;
introduction of, 93 ;
organizing support for, 91 -98;
provisions of, 91 -92;
in the Senate, 97 -98
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), 218 ;
activity in the 1920s, 9 -10;
activity in the 1930s, 15 -16;
activity in the 1940s, 15 , 16 -19;
alternative legislation to, 26 -30;
congressional activity in the 1940s, 15 , 20 -23, 244 n;
congressional activity in the 1960s, 120 ;
defeat in 1946, 22 ;
effects of ratification, 17 -18;
during the Eisenhower years, 33 -38;
equal pay legislation versus, 39 -42;
Hayden amendment of, 30 -33, 35 , 38 ;
Johnson's position on, 182 -183;
Kennedy's 1960 campaign and, 116 -119;
Kennedy's views on, 75 , 86 ;
Nixon's endorsement of, 75 ;
NOW's position on, 199 , 205 -207;
NOW's versus NWP's approach to, 205 ;
organized opposition to, 19 -23;
original proviso of, 30 ;
political party women's support of, 11 ;
racial factors in support of, 11 -13;
summary of issues of, 211 -212;
vote in May 1959 on, 38 .
See also Democratic party platform; Republican party platform
Equal work concept, 96 , 98 , 105
Evans, Sara, 218 , 307 n
Executive Orders. See EO 10925; EO 10980; EO 11246