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Abortion legislation, 205 , 305 n
Adkins, Bertha, 61 -62;
career of, 258 n
Affirmative action programs, 201 -202
AFL (American Federation of Labor), 44 , 45 -46, 46 -47, 49
AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations):
anti-ERA lobby of, 37 ;
Equal Pay Act (1963) and, 98 , 100 , 101 ;
equal pay legislation and, 49 -50, 91 -94;
Kennedy's administration and, 84 -85;
women's affiliates of, 8
African-Americans. See Blacks; Black women
Airline stewardesses, 204
Allen, Florence, 56
Ambassadors, 60 ;
women appointees of Truman, 56
American Association of University Women (AAUW), 8 , 94 , 193 ;
Committee on Civil and Political Rights (PCSW) and, 126 , 128 ;
equal pay legislation and, 95 ;
on women in preparedness programs, 109 -110
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 20 ;
ERA-compromise activities of, 37
American Federation of Teachers (AFT), 113
American Medical Women's Association, 129
American Nurses Association, 128 , 188 ;
Committee on Civil and Political Rights (PCSW), 126
American Women (PCSW report), 134 -136, 172 -173
Anderson, Eugenie, 56 , 58 , 74 ;
ministerial appointment of, 76
Anderson, Mary, 34 , 59 , 77 , 82 ;
career of, 17 -18;
equal pay legislation and, 41 , 42 , 43 ;
on Frances Perkins' appointment, 63 ;
Kennedy campaign, 74 ;
political skills of, 9 ;
on selection by sex in civil service, 143 -144
Appointments of blacks, 255 n-256n;
by Kennedy, 72
Appointments of women, 11 , 52 -65;
Carpenter's influence on, 292 n;
by Eisenhower, 53 , 58 -65, 78 ;
importance of, 62 -65;
PCSW recommendation for, 146 ;
public opinion polls on, 57 -58;
by Roosevelt, 52 -53, 54 , 58 , 255 n;
Stevenson's (Adlai) views on, 58 ;
strategy of, 53 -54;
by Truman, 53 , 54 -58, 62 , 78 , 83 , 256 n.
See also Tokenism