74:. At the time only 1% of the female faculty were full professors- the highest level in the academic ladder, but Pam was able to achieve that rank in record time. There she created the first Women's Center. The Center offered counseling services and legal assistance, covering areas such as finance. These legal assistances covered areas such as help in finance, health and mental health, employment, divorce, custody, sexual abuse, and mortgage applications for many women who needed it. The Women's Center became headquarters for intense feminist political activity within the University, led and supported by Pam. She also spearheaded and helped draft a major sex discrimination class action lawsuit against the University on behalf of female faculty and staff, the first of its kind, which was favorably settled after ten years of litigation. It became a model for such class actions at colleges all over the United States.
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unexpectedly massive size and enthusiasm of the crowds who showed up that she realized they had a
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One of Pam's most memorable moments in feminism was her participation on August 26, 1970 in the historic march down Fifth Avenue titled as, "The Women's Strike for
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Eleanor attended PS152 Elementary School, Arthur S. Somers Junior High 252 and Thomas
Jefferson High school. Her classmates and friends, as did everyone in her neighborhood, were applying to free, city-run local colleges. However, she wanted to go to an out-of-state private school that was
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