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Women’s progress highlighted in 1972 across the nation
The piece reviews 1972 as a milestone year for women with gains in politics education business and law. It notes ERA advances California voter registration reform women in nontraditional jobs and leadership roles, plus local honors and national figures advancing women’s rights and visibility.
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Senate
Martha Griffiths
Michigan
California
Assembly
U.S. “Treasury Department
Women's Hall of Fame
Seneca Falls
Syracuse Jaycettes
Onondaga County
Lorraine Messinger
Carrier Corp
Dorothy Hawk
New Process Gear
June Boxley
Fanny Adams
General Electric Co
Bonnie Winchell
Syracuse
Mimnie Osteyee
Camillus
Charlotte Gray
New York State Conciliation Bureau
District Attorney’s Advisory Council
Rosemary Foner
Barbara Duvall
Ruth Burton
Syracuse University
Ellen Mayne
Lincoln Bank
Doris Huntley Walsh
New York
Women’s Club of
Washington, D.C
Nixon
Catharine Barrett
National Education Association
Eleanor J. Fibson
Cornell University
Margaret Dewar
Syracuse City
National Association of Home Economists
C. Roselyn Krebs
Allen Road
Regional Board of Cooperative Educational Services
BOCES
Ruth Chasty Sisley
University College
Virginia Denton
College of Home Economics
College For Human Development
Cazenovia College
the Moyne College
Katherine R. Hanley
Maria Falco
Mary Smith
Marion Crough Murphy
Crouse-Irving Memorial Hospital
Ada Perry
Jane Widger
Marcellus
New York State
Betty
Pat Wins
Friends
Pat Nixon
Africa
China
Russia
Romano Acosta Banuelos
United States
Marina von Neumann Whitman
Council of Economic Advisors
Alene Durak
US. Navy
Juanita Kreps
Duke University
New York Stock Exchange
U.S. Naval Academy
Bernice Gera
New York-Pennsylvania
Auburn
Helen Bentley
Freight Forwarder's Association
American Association of University Women
Sally Frieland