Mary Eastwood

After graduating she worked on a temporary study project for the National Academy of Sciences. The article discussed Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as it applied to women, and drew comparisons between discriminatory laws against women and Jim Crow laws. In subsequent years, Ruth Bader Ginsburg successfully argued this point in the case Reed v. Reed in front of the Supreme Court. == Feminism and advocacy work ==

In 1966, Eastwood was one of the 28 women who founded the National Organization for Women at the Third National Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women in June (the successor to the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women). She joined another 21 women and men who became founders at the October 1966 NOW Organizing Conference, for a total of 49 founders. Both conferences were held in Washington, D.C. They thus gathered in Betty Friedan’s hotel room to form a new organization. NOW's picket of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in protest of their sex-segregated Help Wanted ads was organized at Eastwood's apartment, and a photo of her picketing was in the Washington Post the next day. Some of Eastwood's papers are held in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. ==References==