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Eleanor Marie Smeal (née Cutri; born July 30, 1939) is an American women's rights activist.She is the president and a cofounder of the Feminist Majority Foundation (founded in 1987) and has served as president of the National Organization for Women for three terms, in addition to her work as an activist, grassroots organizer, lobbyist, and political analyst.
The FMF—an IRS 501(c)(3) tax deductible, non-profit organization—is a research and education organization and the publisher of Ms. magazine. Founded in 1987 by Eleanor Smeal, Peg Yorkin, Katherine Spillar, Toni Carabillo, and Judith Meuli, it has offices in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, California.
Women’s rights and equal pay activist Eleanor Smeal is another honoree. Other recipients include photographer Bobby Sager, academics Thomas Vallely and Paula Wallace, and National Breast Cancer ...
former National Organization for Women president Eleanor Smeal; union president and Latino civil rights figure Cesar Chavez [9] actor and comedian Whoopi Goldberg [10] Jesse Jackson, then a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president. [11] Jackson told the crowd, "Let's find a common ground of humanity...
Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women, termed the choice "a major victory for women's rights." Patricia Ireland, a Miami attorney and a regional director of NOW, said she ...
Other honorees included Frank Butler, who set new standards for using tourniquets on war injuries; Diane Carlson Evans, an Army nurse during the Vietnam War who founded the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation; and Eleanor Smeal, an activist who led women's rights protests in the 1970s and fought for equal pay.
House Select Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson and Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney during a public hearing to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021 Attack on the US Capitol on Oct. 13, 2022.
Eleanor Smeal (born 1939) – organizer, initiator, president of NOW, founder and president of the Feminist Majority Foundation; Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) – social activist, abolitionist, suffragist, organizer of 1848 Women's Rights Convention, co-founder of National Woman Suffrage Association and International Council of Women