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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: KAREN SPINDELadmin2020-06-24T14:11:07-04:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Karen Spindel

“Generations of Girls Were Lost to Math and Science.”

Mechanical Engineer. Organizer. Lifelong advocate fighting for equal rights and to end sex discrimination. Passaic County Chapter of NOW, longtime chapter coordinator and membership chair. Veteran Feminists of America, Data Manager.

Interviewed for Morris County NOW, New Directions for Women, by Rebecca Lubetkin, VFA Board

Photo 1. International Women’s Year March, New York City, 1977. Photo 2. Women’s Hall of Fame, 1986. Photo 3. Karen with her Mom and Daughter Samantha marching for pro-choice, Trenton, 1989. Photo 4. March for Women’s Lives, selling sweatshirts with her Mom, 1989. Photo 5. Karen, left and daughter Rachel holding banner for the Passaic County NOW Justice Concert, 1991. Photo 6. Karen, second to left, and daughter Rachel, far right, at a Rally, New York City, 2006.

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More About Karen:

  • VFA Fabulous Feminists Biography
  • Oral History Interview, October 3, 2019, by Kate Rizzi, Rutgers Oral History Archives
  • VFA Pioneer Feminist of the Month
    • The Clifton Journal August 7, 2009
  • National Women’s Hall of Fame – Karen honored by her daughter, Samantha 2007
  • Tau Beta Pi, The Engineering Honor Society – Karen Spindel, Women’s Badge number 573
    • 50 Years of Women in Tau Beta Pi
  • Select newspaper clippings 
    • The Herald News, 1968
    • March for Choice, 1986
    • Lodi Mayor, NOW Clash, 1994
    • Unwrapping an Idea, 1995
    • Working dads are expanding child-care role, 1998
    • School chided over daughters-at-work day, 1998
    • Women’s Soccer Takes Off, 1999
    • Select Letters to the Editor 1991 – 1998
  • Cited in Barbara Love’s Book – Feminists Who Changed America – pages 436 – 437

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