Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-304-4-63
President John F. Kennedy signs the Equal Pay Act in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C. Others (L-R): Assistant Secretary of Labor for Labor Standards, Esther Peterson (on edge of frame); unidentified stenographer (seated); President of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Pearl Larner Willen; Director of Research and Program Resources for the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), Ethlyn Christensen; Representative Florence Price Dwyer (New Jersey); Representative James G. O’Hara (Michigan); President of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), Dorothy Height; former Director of the Women’s Bureau in the Department of Labor, Mary Anderson; Representative Charles E. Goodell of New York (in back, partially hidden); Representative Elizabeth Kee (West Virginia); Representative Edith Green (Oregon); unidentified woman (behind Representative Green); Representative Edna Kelly (New York); Secretary of Labor, Willard Wirtz (partially hidden behind Representative Kelly); Representative Catherine May of Washington (head turned); Director of United Automobile Workers (UAW) Women’s Department, Caroline Davis; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (in back); Senator Maurine Neuberger (Oregon); President of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs (NFBPWC), Dr. Minnie Miles; Director of the Department of Legislation for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Andrew Biemiller (in back); Representative Leonor K. Sullivan of Missouri (face partially hidden). Also listed in the President’s schedule is Director of Legislation for the General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC), Mary M. Chittenden.