ChicanaDiasporic: A Nomadic Journey of the Activist Exiled

Chicana 1973

1973 the Women’s movement has had successes, launching the National Women’s Political Caucus, its political action arm, gathering 20,000 women in Houston to elect a body that reflects a U.S. demographic with it’s White chair, Black, Brown and White vice chairs, and a Steering Committee with 100 members representative of both ethnic and special interest groups. It also discovers its flaws—not charging for membership believing the tide of women’s liberation—in its apex in the 1970s, will also encourage its financial support. As national and diverse as the NWPC elected governing body is, it’s advisory committee is still very white, slightly male and situated east of the Mississippi River. A committee that will determine all the special interest groups, promised a seat at the decision making table, will be relegated “special interest caucuses” status, guaranteeing no decision making power. The consolation prize is the guarantee that a single member of each caucus will be elected to the Steering Committee.

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