PR Women Who Changed History 2024: Women’s Rights at Risk

Muriel Fox led the fight to gain women’s rights. Sixty years later she’ll tell you how to keep them.

Had it not been for Muriel Fox and the National Organization of Women (NOW) starting in the 1960s, women today would not be able to apply for a credit card, get a car loan, or be approved for a mortgage without their husbands' signatures. The most highly educated women could only apply for secretarial jobs, even when their skills exceeded those of their male colleagues. Advertising reinforced stereotypes of women as housewives expected to take care of the kids, keep the kitchen clean, and pamper their husbands. But thanks to the advocacy of women like PR counselor Muriel Fox, a co-founder of NOW, women were eventually given the opportunity to succeed as professionals in the workplace.

This is an opportunity to hear Muriel Fox’s personal account of her life as a true revolutionary, and share her vision as the very rights she fought to secure for women are at risk of being stripped away. Dr. Caryn Medved of Baruch College conducted the interview.

“When we started NOW, we knew the world needed a civil rights organization, some of us called it an NAACP for women, to work for women’s rights. And that’s one reason it exploded so powerfully—because it was long overdue, in some ways it was centuries overdue.” —Muriel Fox

8th Annual PR Women Who Changed History event
Thursday, March 14, 2024, 6pm ET
This event was recorded before a live audience. Watch the video now.

HOST

Dr. Caryn E. Medved, Professor, Corporate Communication MA Program Director, Baruch College CUNY

INTERVIEW

Muriel Fox, Co-founder, the National Organization For Women (NOW), public relations executive and feminist activist, and author of The Women's Revolution: How We Changed Your Life.

Thanks to our Sponsors

Thanks to Hunter for sponsoring this event; and to the organizations that provide ongoing support to the PRMuseum—our Founding Partner, Edelman; our Underwriters, BCW and APCO Worldwide; and our sustaining sponsors, Google, the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication; Honeywell; the Page Society; the Wallace Foundation; and Zeno.

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