Faye Wattleton Biographical Sketch
Faye Wattleton, President of the Center for Gender Equality, will
address Womens Equality at a Womens History Month Celebration, set
for noon Thursday, March 30, 2000, in the Chapel of The Interchurch Center, 475 Riverside
Drive at 120th Street, New York City. She
will offer a snapshot assessment of womens rights today in such areas as health,
economics and religion, and propose a direction and motivation for the future.
The celebration, sponsored by the National Council of Churches, also
will feature The Interchurch Centers Gospel Choir and several readings. A reception will follow.
The Center for Gender Equality is a not-for-profit research, policy
development and education institution created in 1995 to promote strategies for
dismantling the obstacles that impede full equality for women. Ms. Wattleton was President of the Planned
Parenthood Federation from 1978-92, growing it to become the nations
seventh largest charity.
She is a celebrated lecturer whose views on issues of womens
equality,` health care and civil rights continue to be sought by organizations, opinion
and political leaders around the world including a wide spectrum of major media.
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