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From Suffrage to the Senate America's Political Women: An Encyclopedia of Leaders, Causes & Issues

Feminist Majority Foundation

Founded in 1987, the Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) recruits women for public office and works for women’s equality, reproductive freedom, and increased human services. Organized by Eleanor Smeal, former president of the National Organization for Women, Peg Yorkin, and Katherine Spillar, the FMF was originally known as the Fund for the Feminist Majority. The group received its initial financial support from Peg Yorkin, who gave $10 million to the Fund for the Feminist Majority, 50 percent of which went to endow the foundation, with the balance supporting the legalization of the abortifacient RU-486, now known as mifepristone, in the United States.

FMF has had several programs to further its goals. The “Feminization of Power Campaign” works to encourage women to seek public office and to assist them as they campaign. The Rock for Choice project reaches out to young people through music to educate and organize them to support abortion rights. The FMF educates the public on women’s issues, defends women’s rights in legal cases, and conducts research. FMF’s campaigns in 2006 include the Campaign for Afghan Women and Girls, college campus programs, Get Out Her Vote, and the National Clinic Access Project.

In 2001, FMF acquired Ms. magazine.

See also: Abortion; Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994; National Organization for Women; RU-486 (Mifepristone); Sexual Harassment; Smeal, Eleanor Cutri; Violence Against Women Act of 1994

References: Feminist Majority Foundation, http://feminist.org/default.asp (accessed July 20, 2012 and January 10, 2019).

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