Starts:

Thursday May 08, 2025

    5:30 PM

Ends:

    7:00 PM

*For non-member event reservations: please email pfitzgerald@democraticwoman.org or telephone (202) 232-7363 Ext. 402 (voicemails will also be accepted).*

Join Legendary women’s rights leader Eleanor Smeal for a discussion of today’s fight to defend our rights. As co-founder and president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, publisher of Ms. Magazine, and former president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Smeal has led efforts for the economic, political, and social equality and empowerment of women worldwide for over four decades. Known as a political analyst, strategist, and grassroots organizer, Smeal has played a pivotal role in defining the debate, developing the strategies, and charting the direction of the feminist movement. Come hear her analysis of the challenges we’re facing now and strategies for effective action.

EVENT DETAILS:

• Remarks and Q&A, in-person and via Zoom.
• 5:30 p.m. complimentary hors d'oeuvres and cash bar; 6–7 p.m. program. 7 p.m.
• Zoom only: $10. In-person: members: $20, non-members: $25 plus tax. 

Smeal has been an activist leader in the passage of landmark legislation, such as the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, Equal Credit Act, Civil Rights Restoration Act, Violence Against Women Act, and Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. Never giving up the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment, Smeal and the Feminist Majority have worked tirelessly first for ratification of the ERA and currently for recognition of the ratification by the 38th state (Virginia) and the enshrining the ERA into the U.S. Constitution as the 28th Amendment.

Smeal and her achievements were honored as she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2015 and received the Presidential Citizens Medal in 2025. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Duke University and holds a master’s degree from the University of Florida.