One of the most Badass: Duos; Activists

Plus this picture. I love this picture too (*puts as twitter background). It's really of me and my best friend in the future to come, minus the monumental success.


Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman circa 1970 -Photograph by Dan Wynn.

Ms. Steinem helped to found the Women's Action Alliance, a pioneering national information center that specialized in nonsexist, multiracial children's education, and the National Women's Political Caucus, a group that continues to work to advance the numbers of pro-equality women in elected and appointed office at a national and state level. She was president and co-founder of Voters for Choice, a pro-choice political action committee for twenty-five years, then with the Planned Parenthood Action Fund when it merged with VFC for the 2004 elections. She was also co-founder and serves on the board of Choice USA, a national organization that supports young pro-choice leadership and works to preserve comprehensive sex education in schools. She was the founding president of the Ms. Foundation for Women, a national multi-racial, multi-issue fund that supports grassroots projects to empower women and girls, and also a founder of its Take Our Daughters to Work Day, a first national day devoted to girls that has now become an institution here and in other countries. Now, she is working with the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College on a project to document the grassroots origins of the U.S. women's movement.

Ms. Hughes took action on behalf of those families; this marked the beginning of a 40-year pattern that would repeat again and again. She started a daycare center in her home, acquiring resources where they were available – discarded furniture left for trash pickup on the streets, donations by individuals she organized to become fellow-advocates, personal contributions scraped together from her wages. In 1979, she co-founded and organized New York City’s Agency for Child Development which currently provides care for over 250,000 children daily and employ’s thousands. She organized the first battered women’s shelter in New York City, owned and operated three daycare centers and sponsored a successful youth entrepreneur apprentice project. She is a successful entrepreneur and, notably, was the first female, African American member of the Stationers Association of New York.



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