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  Eleanor Smeal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eleanor Smeal (born July 30, 1939 in Erie County, Ohio) is a feminist activist, political analyst, lobbyist, and grassroots organizer.
Smeal is also the president and founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation and has served as president of the National Organization for Women twice.
Eleanor Smeal joined the National Organization for Women(NOW) in 1970 and served as president from 1977 to 1982 and again from 1985 to 1987.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eleanor_Smeal   (576 words)

  
 Eleanor Smeal Biography
Eleanor Smeal (born 1939), one of the leading feminists in the United States in the last quarter of the 20th century, served as president of the National Organization for Women from 1977 to 1982 and again from 1985 to 1987.
Eleanor Marie Cutri was born on July 30, 1939, in Ashtabula, Ohio, the daughter of Italian-American parents, Josephine E. Agresti and Peter Anthony Cutri.
Smeal's success as an administrator became clear when she was able to erase a substantial national debt within a year and to double the national membership within two years.
www.bookrags.com /biography/eleanor-smeal   (1114 words)

  
 Feminist Majority Foundation
Smeal was the first to identify the “gender gap” -- the difference in the way women and men vote -- and popularized its usage in election and polling analyses to enhance women’s voting clout.
Smeal was one of the first women’s leaders to bring to the attention of women in the U.S. and worldwide the significance of mifepristone (formerly known as RU 486) as a medical breakthrough for women.
Eleanor Smeal has a son, Tod, who is a Ph.D. in molecular biology, and a daughter, Lori, who is an attorney.
www.feminist.org /welcome/esbio.html   (1255 words)

  
 The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Foundation, and Phyllis Schlafly, President of Eagle Forum, debated the role of the feminist movement in American society as part of the Milton S. Eisenhower (MSE) Symposium on Tuesday.
Smeal argued that women's studies programs are an integral part of any university and that they expose young people to important issues and how they affect society.
Smeal said that feminists are divided on the issue but that she, personally, does not approve of it and had never taken any money from anyone involved in the porn industry.
www.jhu.edu /~newslett/10-26-00/News/5.html   (501 words)

  
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Smeal was born in Ashtabula, Ohio in 1939; she holds degrees from Duke University and the University of Florida.
Smeal has also been an active proponent of race- and gender-based hiring and the development of quotas for hiring; she worked for the defeat of the landmark Proposition 209 in California, which would have created a truly race- and gender-blind state.
Smeal's FMF published a story falsely claiming that Operation Rescue personnel had murdered doctors and staff members at abortion clinics, and was later forced to print a retraction.
www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1776   (687 words)

  
 The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Foundation, came to Hopkins in order to help spark interest in student activism under the sponsorship of a broad array of campus social committees on Tuesday, February 15th.
Smeal began describing the earliest stages of her activism in the 1970s when she became involved with National Organization for Women and the women's rights movement.
Smeal applied the affirmative action argument into the context of the Johns Hopkins community, where the issue of the scarcity in African and Female tenured professors frequently recurs as a topic of debate between students and administration alike.
www.jhu.edu /~newslett/02-17-00/News/1.html   (614 words)

  
 FeministCampus.org : : The World's Largest Pro-Choice Network
Recognized throughout the nation as a women's rights leader, Eleanor ("Ellie") Smeal appears frequently on television and radio, testifies before Congress on a wide variety of women's issues, and speaks to diverse audiences nationwide on a broad range of feminist topics.
FMF President Eleanor Smeal answers questions about the feminism and shares her experiences in the movement.
Eleanor Smeal: One of our dreams has been that all women and girls assume that they have equal opportunities and reproductive freedom.
www.feministcampus.org /network/chat/elliedialogue.asp   (575 words)

  
 Q&A: Eleanor Smeal - On the Line Progressive, The - Find Articles
Eleanor Smeal served as president of the National Organization for Women in the 1970s and 1980s and went on to become a cofounder and president of the Feminist Majority Foundation.
Smeal led the national abortion rights march in 1986 that drew more than 100,000 demonstrators to Washington, D.C. She visited our offices in November during a stop on the "Never Go Back" tour.
Smeal: Approximately 70 percent of the electorate are for keeping abortion legal.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1295/is_1_67/ai_96954084   (345 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
Eleanor Smeal: An exciting aspect of the modern-day women's movement is that it's global.
Eleanor Smeal: Mifepristone, which was formerly called RU 486, we believe will finally be approved by the FDA sometime in either late 1999 or early 2000.
Eleanor Smeal: While we are on the topic of Afghanistan, we are doing everything we can to increase the visibility of the plight of Afghan women, to make sure that the US and UN do not recognize the Taliban, and to increase the humanitarian resources devoted to Afghan women and girls.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/liveonline/hertime/hertime991104.htm   (2602 words)

  
 Eleanor Smeal wants Clarence Thomas Investigated [Free Republic]
Eleanor Smeal has no power except that which is given to her by the lib media.
Smeal had no prob with Bill Clinton dropping trous to a subordinate in Arkansas -- claimed the fact that Paula Jones got upset was proof she was trailer trash.
Smeal would use him as her source is as pathetic as it is predictable for all leftists who pick and choose their "facts" to fit their agenda.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b4662391874.htm   (2222 words)

  
 CNN.com Chat Transcript - Heather French Henry and Eleanor Smeal - Friday, March 2, 2001
Eleanor Smeal is currently president of the Feminist Majority Foundation.
Eleanor Smeal: The pageant system has sort of a program by which little girls start competing at a very young age, and our research shows that very few contestants really start in high school.
Eleanor Smeal: Yes, they're very dated, and one of the reasons they're so dated is because the modern woman and girl is seen more fully, with a wide array of attributes and talents.
edition.cnn.com /COMMUNITY/transcripts/2001/03/02/smeal   (1634 words)

  
 Eleanor Smeal - interview with the president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority - Interview Progressive, The - Find ...
Smeal recalls that her mother wanted her daughter to do all the things that had been off limits for her (as a first-generation Italian American) - like riding a bike or going swimming.
Smeal: First, I think it's important to understand that as a single-issue movement, the anti-abortion effort is collapsing.
Smeal: Mainly, it's because it has tremendous money behind it, from much of big business - which sees liberals, who are pro-choice and concerned about issues like the environment, as people who also support regulations.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1295/is_n11_v59/ai_18008840   (979 words)

  
 Eleanor Smeal: The Supreme Court and the Rebirth of Anti-Catholicism?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Presumably, however, the Smeal Standard is inapplicable to Justices of the Jewish Faith - or at least not to those Jewish Justices appointed by Democratic Presidents.
The Smeal Standard, if one literally were to apply it, would require Presidents to nominate, and the Senate to confirm, only one Roman Catholic Justice.
To indulge the numerical speculation is to spotlight the utter absurdity and viciousness of the Smeal Standard.
www.freecongress.org /commentaries/2005/051103.asp   (720 words)

  
 Statement of Eleanor Smeal, 16 Nov 1993
Document 15A: Eleanor Smeal, "Statement of Eleanor Smeal, President, Fund for The Feminist Majority," Senate Hearing 103-51,16 November 1993, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives, Serial No. 51.
Eleanor Smeal represented the organization before the Senate and also submitted a prepared statement (see Document 15B).
I'm Ellie Smeal, and I'm speaking on behalf of the Fund for the Feminist Majority.
www.binghamton.edu /womhist/vawa/doc15.htm   (642 words)

  
 Feminist Daily News 3/25/2004: Eleanor Smeal, Feminist Majority President, Decries Senate Move   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Arlington, VA — Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority, today condemned the action by the United States Senate to further erode women’s rights by passing H.R. 1997, the so-called Unborn Victims of Violence Act.
Smeal is the most senior organizer among the coalition sponsoring the March for Women’s Lives, with her first major campaign taking place in Washington at the Vatican Embassy in 1975.
Smeal was the first to identify the “gender gap” -- the difference in the way women and men vote -- and popularized its usage in election and olling analyses to enhance women’s voting clout.
www.feminist.org /news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=8361   (812 words)

  
 Comparable Worth: Pay Equity or Social Engineering?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Smeal's statement that women who get comparable worth pay increases are getting real money in their pockets is true.
Smeal states that women have come a long way and still have a long way to go.
SMEAL: I like your facetious example, because it shows a lack of understanding of what pay equity is about.
www.heritage.org /Research/Labor/HL63.cfm?renderforprint=1   (6952 words)

  
 Womens rights leader Eleanor Smeal to speak on campus March 23   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Eleanor Smeal, a women's rights leader who has been fighting for women's equality the past 26 years, will be the featured speaker for Women's History Month on Monday, March 23.
A political analyst, strategist and grassroots organizers, Smeal co-founded and became president of the Feminist Majority Foundation and The Feminist Majority in 1987.
Smeal served longer than any other person as president of the National Organization for Women, before co-founding the Feminist Majority Foundation.
www.odu.edu /ao/instadv/archive/issue14/smeal.htm   (217 words)

  
 Context Preview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Eleanor Smeal is known as a one of the architects of the modern women's movement.
Smeal, who is still an active feminist today, has played an important role in both national and state campaigns to win women's rights.
Smeal delivered the speech you will read for class on July 8, 1987, to an audience of journalists and other members of the National Press Club.
www.com.washington.edu /Program/courses/s04/com436/smeal.html   (515 words)

  
 Seven Who Change the Rules for Nations
This autumn, Smeal has become the "go to" person the media and others rely on for information not only about the role of women in Afghanistan, but also the anthrax threats against abortion clinics and the possible connections between the two.
Smeal's activism against violence by fundamentalists has also led her to lobby federal officials to track down and prosecute anti-abortion fundamentalists in the U.S. By the end of 2001, two of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted were anti-abortion terrorists Eric Rudolph and Clayton Lee Waagner, the latter captured in December.
Smeal is now preparing for the 2002 elections and beyond, and getting ready to hunker down for the next wave of work.
www.womensenews.org /Article.cfm/dyn/aid/772   (3392 words)

  
 Feminist Leader Eleanor Smeal To Keynot At Legislative Briefing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Former NOW President Eleanor Smeal and channel 9, WUSA TV news anchor Andrea Roane will be featured at the 19th annual Regional Women's Legislative Briefing, to be held on February 7 at the Natcher Conference Center on the Bethesda campus of NIH, from 12:30 to 5:45 p.m.
Smeal will deliver the keynote address and Roane will serve as emcee for the opening ceremonies and keynote address.
Smeal, who served as president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) for three terms in the 1970s and '80s, was the first person to identify and popularize usage of the term "gender gap" when referring to the difference in the way women and men vote.
www.montgomerycountymd.gov /mc/news/press/99-14.html   (379 words)

  
 Freethought Heroine Award
Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority, was named 1994 Freethought Heroine and gave the keynote speech at the 17th annual Freedom From Religion Foundation convention on October 1, 1994, meeting in Madison, Wis.
Eleanor Smeal co-founded and became President of the Feminist Majority Fund and Foundation in 1987, after serving three terms as President of the National Organization for Women, from 1975 to 1982 and from 1985 to 1987.
She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Duke University and holds an M.A. degree from the University of Florida and a Doctor of Law honorary degree from Duke University.
www.ffrf.org /awards/heroine/1994_smeal.php   (368 words)

  
 The Keystone - Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
Smeal’s visit to KU was to inform students and others about the recent ban on “partial-birth” abortion.
Smeal started protesting in the ‘70s when the only forms of communication was through protests, signs and word of mouth.
Eleanor Smeal is not only the president of the FMF, but is also the former president of the National Organization for Women (NOW).
keystoneonline.com /story.asp?art_id=812   (912 words)

  
 Brendan Nyhan: Eleanor Smeal dissembles on the upcoming Supreme Court battle
Eleanor Smeal dissembles on the upcoming Supreme Court battle
In an action alert email Friday, Feminist Majority president Eleanor Smeal is the latest anti-Bush figure to spread the myth that the upcoming Supreme Court nominee is going to overturn Roe v.
Where Smeal accidentally-on-purpose errs is not in saying that O'Connor was the 5th vote that was saving Roe v.
www.brendan-nyhan.com /blog/2005/07/eleanor_smeal_d.html   (906 words)

  
 'Scarborough Country' for Feb. 18 - - MSNBC.com
SMEAL:  There is a serious amount of discrimination against women in science, math and engineering.  The data is replete with it.  So, it‘s not just some issue over there.  This is very important.
SMEAL:  I have heard it from some of the people in the—one professor who was in the meeting feels that it‘s been modified, and I guess one professor...
SMEAL:  You know, listen, at the turn of the century, they said women were inferior and couldn‘t be educated.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7011424   (3152 words)

  
 War On Cancer Held Hostage By Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
"It is outrageous," said Smeal, at a news conference during Feminist Expo 2000 at the Baltimore Convention Center.
Smeal said she knows her outspoken call for FDA approval will create a patient demand for the drug that cannot now be filled, but she is hopeful that demand will provoke the federal government to act.
Smeal said the National Right to Life Committee as well as congressional abortion opponents are holding up the drug's approval.
www.commondreams.org /headlines/040200-02.htm   (544 words)

  
 Myra Sadker Equity Award Eleanor Smeal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
I was born in Wisconsin; Ellie in Ohio.
Well before 911, and before most Americans truly understood what the Taliban meant, it was Ellie Smeal and the Feminist Majority who drew US and world attention to the Talibanís brutal treatment of women in Afghanistan.
With pleasure and gratitude, I present the Seventh Annual Myra Sadker Equity Award to Eleanor Smeal.
www.sadker.org /elliesmealaward.htm   (667 words)

  
 Eleanor Smeal: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
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 NOW National Conference 2002: Woman of Vision Awards
Eleanor Smeal is recognized throughout the nation and the world as a women's rights leader.
President of the Feminist Majority Foundation and a former president of NOW, Smeal appears frequently as an expert on television and radio and before Congress, and speaks on a broad range of feminist topics.
In 1997, Smeal expanded her activism to a global level, launching the international Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan to counter the Taliban's brutal abuse of women.
www.now.org /organization/conference/2002/vision.html   (498 words)

  
 Women's Rights Convention & Vision Summit Speakers' Biographies
During her three terms as president of NOW, Smeal led the campaign to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, the largest grassroots and lobbying effort in the history of the women's rights movement, and initiated the landmark NOW v.
Making this majority visible has long been Smeal's aim, from the first national abortion rights march in Washington D.C. in 1986 to the first-ever national feminist exposition, Expo `96.
Always a pioneer, Smeal recognized the potential of the Internet as a feminist organizing and research tool, launching the Feminist Majority On-line in 1995, one of the first women's organization sites on the World Wide Web.
www.now.org /organization/conference/1998/speakers.html   (1061 words)

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