JFK'ad

John F. Kennedy Expanding Women Rights

====The issue of women's rights also recieved attention during the kennedy administration. In 1961 Kennedy created the Presidentail Commission on the Status of Women. The commission called for fedral action against gender discriminationation and affirmed the right of women to equally paid employement. Although he never appointed a women in his cabinet, a number of women worked in prominent positions in the kennedy administration, incuding EstherPeterson, assistant secretary of labor and director of the Women's Bureau of the Depatment of Labor.====