Question

Which feminist chaired President Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women?

Answer 1

Answer:

The feminist that chaired President Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women was Eleanor Roosevelt.

Explanation:

Eleanor Roosevelt was a human rights activist, diplomat, and wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. After her husband's death in 1945, she continued her social career and worked for the United Nations as General Assembly Representative and Chair of the Human Rights Commission.

From April 1946 she was chairman of the UN Committee on Human Rights, which she chaired until the adoption of the Universal Charter of Human Rights on December 10, 1948. Eleanor was reasignated as one of the United States representatives in the UN in 1961 when John Kennedy came to the presidency of the United States. President Kennedy also gave Eleanor Roosevelt the chairman position of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, created by Executive Order 10980 on 1961. However, Eleanor's health began to deteriorate and she eventually died on November 7, 1962 in New York.

Answer 2

Answer:

Eleanor Roosevelt chaired Kennedy