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What Status for Women? (1962-06-04)
About this film
Program opens with a ten minute segment in which President John F. Kennedy is interviewed one-on-one by Eleanor Roosevelt at the White House in Washington, DC. Balance of program, Eleanor Roosevelt moderates; Guests: Arthur Goldberg, United States Secretary of Labor; Agda Rossel, Swedish Ambassador to the United Nations; Thomas Mendenhall, President of Smith College; Mirra Komarovsky, Head of the Department of Sociology at Barnard College, author of Women in the Modern World: Their Education and Their Dilemmas.
Directors & creators
WGBH Educational Foundation
Subjects
women's rights, equal pay, Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur Goldberg, Agda Rossel, Sweden, United Nations, Mirra Komarovsky, Barnard College, Smith College, second-wave feminism, women in the workforce, Kennedy administration gender policy, WGBH
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