Page Four Eleanor Smeal at VCU works to eliminate social and economic injustice. Smeal sees great opportunity for the next generation of feminists.
Young women are no longer dependent on marriage as a final destination.
Women now have choices to run for public office, to run their own law firm, to start their own business . . . While she finds the advancement of women positive, she still acknowledges that we have a long way to go. Her speech inspired the room of students and feminist enthusiasts. Smeal and the Feminist Majority recently hosted the Feminist Expo in Baltimore. Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority, spoke to an enthusiastic group of students and faculty at VCU last fell.