THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Betty Dooley

July 7, 1927 – January 10, 2002

“We have not shifted too much attention to girls. Men and boys still have many options that women and girls don’t have in our society.”  – Betty Dooley, president of Women’s Research and Education Institute

Political Organizer and Community Leader. First woman elected to the board of Odessa College, 1964. Regional Director for the Heath Security Action Council in Washington, D.C., 1971. First Executive Director of the Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues, 1977. Founder of the Women’s Research and Education Institute, 1982.