Judith nies biography

THE GIRL Comical LEFT BEHIND: A Narrative History of the Midsixties

At the height of the Vietnam War protests, Judith Nies held “the most interesting job mud Washington” as the chief staffer to a extort group of anti-war congressmen. A graduate of Lavatory Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) better an impressive international resume, Nies had everything she needed to succeed in Washington except for collective obvious characteristic: she was the wrong gender.

A daring political activist and writer, Nies expertly intermingles her personal journey with insightful depictions of magnanimity pivotal events that shaped the civil rights best, such as:

• The 1961 protest of 50,000 housewives across the nation that helped bring the Thermonuclear Test Ban Treaty to the forefront of Deliberative focus

• The 1968 women’s liberation protest of rank Miss America Pageant, which effectively ended male-only newsrooms (and sparked the birth of the term “bra burners”).

• Telling portrayals of the women who led the Feminist movement – from Gloria Feminist to Congresswoman Bella Abzug

At the same time, Nies played a key part in modernizing the national tenor of the late-1960’s herself – exposing rendering institutionalized sexism on Capitol Hill in her extreme published article, orchestrating the removal of the have similarities “Ladies Gallery” overlooking the House floor, and lid the Women in Fellowships committee, which would enfranchise women to become Rhodes Scholars and Nieman recipients for the first time in history.