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DACOWITS (Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services), 57

David, Henry, 132 , 133 -134;

PCSW and, 113 ;

on protective labor legislation, 152 -153

Davis, Bette, 95

Davis, Caroline, 93 , 94 , 121 , 148 , 149 ;

regarding Peterson's work on the Equal Pay Act (1963), 104

Day care, 157 -159, 164 ;

Kennedy's views on, 75 ;

NOW's position on, 198 ;

PCSW recommendations on, 157 -159;

postwar termination of, 5 ;

tax deductions for, 182 ;

during World War II, 4 , 242 n.

See also Childrearing

Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS), 57

Defense Department, 182

Democratic National Committee (DNC), 11 ;

on appointments of women, 54 ;

India Edwards and, 54 -56;

influence of, on women's affairs during Kennedy administration, 79 , 81 ;

Kennedy's vice-chairman appointee to, 73 ;

lack of representation on PCSW of, 146 ;

women's vote, 1948, and, 29 -30

Democratic party platform:

of 1944 and the ERA, 19 ;

of 1948 and the ERA, 29 ;

of 1956 and the ERA, 36 ;

of 1960 and the ERA, 117 , 118 ;

of 1964 and the ERA, 183

Demographic factors:

divorce rate, 219 ;

fertility rate, 219 ;

marriage rates, 6 , 25

Dewey, Thomas E., 29

Dewson, Molly, 53

Dickason, Gladys, 74

Dickerson, Nancy, 267 n

Dirksen, Everett, 181

Discrimination:

in state legislation, 18 , 20 , 26 .

See also Racial discrimination; Sex discrimination

Divorced women, 156

Divorce rate, 219

DNC. See Democratic National Committee

Domestic service during World War II, 4

Dougherty, Cardinal Dennis, 21

Dungan, Ralph, 86