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WY 100-164665 — | : WI. SUB-GROUPS OF WIM ~ NEW YORK cITy AREA “fhe Village Voice",-a New York City daily newspaper, Sssue of November 27, 1969, Page l1l,contained an article - entitled "The Next Great Movemen ‘in History is Theirs". - “Over and over again, in educated thinking circles, i ‘one meets with a bizarre, almost \determined ignorance of a 7 - fact of unrest that is growing daily, and that exists in ~= °°” Lo. formally organized bodies in nearly every major city and on - « - @ozens of campuses across America}, ‘The women of this country <:.: = @re gathering themselves into a sweat of civil revolt, and : the general population seems totally unaware of what is 7 happening; or, indeed, that anything is happening; of that .. 9 .-. . there is a legitimate need behind what is happening. How is- - . this possible? Why is it true? (What relation is there . a between the peculiarly unalarned,\ amused dismissal of the < women's rights movement and the movement itself? Is this 7 UW, - x7 Felation only coincidental, only the generally apathetic - ~~ response of a society already benumbed by civil rights and 4 student anarchy and unable to rise to yet one- more protest . movement,or is it more to the point in the case of women's... ... taeae?? is it not, in fact, precisely the key to the entire Bsue? “one of the oldest and stablest of the feminist organizations is NOW, the National Organization for Women. It was started in 1966 by @ group of professional women headed - by Mrs. Betty Friedan, author of ‘The Feminine Mystique,' the ; book that was the bringer of the word in 1963 to the new feminists. NOW has more than 3000 members, chapters in major — - » ~ Cities and on many campuses al] over the country, and was . ' yead, at its inception, into the Congressional Record. It - . has many men in its ranks and it works, avowedly- within the. . system, to bring about the kind of reforms that will result -- in what it calis a 'truly equal partnership between men and women’ in this country. It is a true reform organization filled ; with intelligent, liberal, hard-working women devoted to the = - y didea that America is a reformist democracy and ultimately will °35-