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’ ft. . . * WY 100-164665 | ; C. National Organization For Woman (NOW) The "Sunday News", Sunday edition of the "Daily News", issue of January 4, 1970, in an article entitled "Comes the Women's Revolution" reflects in part as follows: . “To fi-d out, we started two weeks of interviews ranging from East Village pads and loft offices to chic apartments and business offices. Those interviewed ranged” =: . from NOW members and .adicals to anthropologist Dr. Margaret ~~ Mead, to women and men like Sen. Charles Goodell (R-N.Y.), who . . @re responsible for changing the laws. ’ Do. te Jee 4 WE. - - "NOW president Betty Friedan, Smith graduate, mother .of three, wrote "The Feminine Mystique," an.explosive book .-.. dealing with the problems of women who ‘exist only as wives and mothers.’ "“'The response from women around the country on my book’ said Mrs. Friedan, 'made me see the need of NOW. And if- - - I wrote my book again, I'd change only the last chapter--on a woman's answer to her own liberation as a human being. It's not an individual problem, it's social and political.' Lo "Betty Friedan is an intense, logical conversationalist. She talks at top speed in paragraphs,not sentences. "Like other Liberation mambers, she sees a parallel between the struggle of biacks and women. 'We are now where blacks were 50 years ago, but we benefit from their fight. With 51% of the population, we need just ore in five women and - a few men to create a power bloc that will make black power look pale.' “NOW has already done much, she believes. - ee "tWe've served notice that women are half the ~ population and are determined to get their rights: We've - broken through in the employment area, providing money and . dawyers. to try Title VII sex discrimination cases in the. oY -50- _