Organized around the slogan, “Don’t iron while the strike is hot,” the march was originally intended to result in a national work stoppage among women, as Friedan aimed to demonstrate the unequal burden of domestic labor. Sponsored by the National Organization for Women and organized largely by Betty Friedan, the march put forth a feminist agenda that included access to free abortion, round-the-clock childcare centers and equal opportunities in work and education. 26, 1970, the Women’s Strike for Equality brought an estimated 50,000 women onto New York City’s Fifth Avenue during rush hour. Kennedy, who called the women “extremely earnest.” When he signed the nuclear test ban treaty in 1963, it was, in part, a credit to their protest.
The march also earned the attention of President John F. “As mothers, we cannot help but be concerned about the health and welfare of our husbands and children,” Kennedy wrote, according to the Times.
Organizers of the strike received a letter of support from First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, as well as the wife of Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev. “The girls are only beginning to feel their power,” WSP founder Dagmar Wilson said at the time, according to the New York Times. Swerdlow, who was a founding member of Women Strike for Peace (WSP), said activists urged other women to “suspend their regular routine of home, family, and job” and march on government offices to demonstrate their concern. Women “walked out of their kitchens and off their jobs in a one-day women’s strike for peace,” wrote Amy Swerdlow, author of Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s. If you don't get the confirmation within 10 minutes, please check your spam folder.Ĭoncerned by the nuclear arms race of the Cold War, an estimated 50,000 women in cities across the country and around the world went on strike to protest nuclear testing on Nov.
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