Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-459-11-63
President John F. Kennedy receives the final report of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, titled “American Women,” from Assistant Secretary of Labor for Labor Standards and Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission, Esther Peterson. Left to right: Vice Chairman of the Commission, Dr. Richard A. Lester; President of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), Dorothy Height; unidentified; Executive Director of the National Council of Catholic Women (NCCW), Margaret Mealey; Secretary of Commerce, Luther H. Hodges; President of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Viola Hymes; Secretary of Labor, W. Willard Wirtz; President Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Director of the New School for Social Research, Dr. Henry David; past president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs (NFBPWC) and the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL), Dr. Marguerite Rawalt; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Anthony J. Celebrezze; unidentified; Assistant Secretary Peterson; Assistant General Secretary for Program of the National Council of Churches, Dr. Cynthia C. Wedel (mostly hidden); President of Radcliffe College, Dr. Mary I. “Polly” Bunting; technical advisor in community development and cultural affairs for the United Nations (UN), Dr. Caroline F. Ware (face obscured); Senator George D. Aiken (Vermont). East Room, White House Washington, D.C. [Horizontal line along bottom of image is original to the negative.]