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The National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) is a small national multi-partisan grassroots organization in the United States dedicated to recruiting, training, and supporting women who seek elected and appointed offices.〔(About ) ''National Women's Political Caucus''〕 ==History== NWPC was founded in July of 1971 to increase the number of women in all aspects of political life, as elected and appointed officials, as judges in state and federal courts, and as delegates to national conventions. In July 1971, 320 women from all over the United States met in Washington, D.C. The group included elected women officials, feminists, community activists, Democrats, Republicans, radicals, union women, homemakers, students, women of color, and lesbians. The participants elected a national policy council, initially co-chaired by former Democratic Congresswoman Bella Abzug, an NWPC initiator, and Republican Virginia Allen, former chair of President Nixon's Task Force on Women's Rights and Responsibilities. Gloria Steinem joined Bella Abzug, Mildred McWilliams Jeffrey, Shirley Chisholm, all from New York and Betty Friedan to officially form the National Women's Political Caucus, encouraging women's participation in the 1972 election. The NWPC held its first convention in Houston from February 9 to 11, 1973. The NWPC created a Democratic Task Force in 1974 and a Republican Task force in 1975. From 2004 to present, National Women's Political Caucus has worked to stop the confirmation of Justices Roberts and Alito to the Supreme Court. Although the Senate confirmed Alito, Alito received fewer votes than his anti-choice colleague Justice Roberts. Currently, the Caucus hopes to gain momentum to finally pass the Equal Rights Amendment. The NWPC was instrumental in persuading the Democratic Party to support the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Women's Political Caucus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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