PCSW Members
PCSW committee members came from professional organizations, trade unions, religious groups, social and political clubs. Contrary to latter assertions by some activists from the women's liberation movement, the members were not uniformly white and middle class. They also included men.
- Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Chair
- Dr. Richard A. Lester, President of Economics, Princeton University, Vice Chair
- Mrs. Esther Peterson, Assistant Secretary of Labor, Executive Vice Chair
- Robert F. Kennedy, Attorney General
- Orville L. Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture
- Luther H. Hodges, Secretary of Commerce
- Arthur J. Goldberg, Secretary of Labor
- Abraham A. Ribicoff, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
- John W. Macy Jr., Chair, United States Civil Service Commission
- Senator George D. Aiken (R Vermont)
- Senator Maurine B. Neuberger (D Oregon)
- Representative Edith Green (D Oregon)
- Representative Jessica M. Weis (R New York)
- Mrs. Ellen Body, Rancher and civic leader, Henrietta, Texas
- Dr. Mary I. Bunting, President, Radcliffe College
- Mrs. Mary R. Callahan, Member, Executive Board, International Union of Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers, AFL-CIO
- Dr. Henry David, President, New School for Social Research
- Miss Dorothy Height, President, National Council of Negro Women; Director, Leadership Training Services, Young Women's Christian Association
- Mrs. Margaret Hickey, lawyer, Contributing Editor, Ladies Home Journal
- Mrs. Viola H. Hymes, National President, National Council of Jewish Women
- Edgar F. Kaiser, Industrialist
- Miss Margaret J. Mealey, Executive Director, National Council of Catholic Women
- Miss Marguerite Rawalt, lawyer, former president of National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs; branch chief in Office of Chief Counsel, IRS
- William F. Schnitzler, Secretary-Treasuer, AFL-CIO
- Dr. Caroline Ware, Sociologist, Historian for UNESCO
- Dr. Cynthia Wedel, psychologist, teacher, former Vice President, National Council of Churches; Member, National Board of Girl Scouts of the USA
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