Photograph
White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy distributes pens after signing the Equal Pay Act in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C. Standing (L-R): Senator Wayne Morse (Oregon); Representative Florence Price Dwyer (New Jersey); Senator Jennings Randolph (West Virginia); unidentified woman (behind Senator Randolph); President of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), Dorothy Height (receiving a pen from the President); former Director of the Women’s Bureau in the Department of Labor, Mary Anderson; Secretary-Treasurer of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), William F. Schnitzler; Assistant Secretary of Labor for Labor Standards, Esther Peterson; Director of Research and Program Resources for the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), Ethlyn Christensen; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (in back, head turned); Representative Leonor K. Sullivan of Missouri (in back, wearing hat); President of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Pearl Larner Willen; Executive Director of the National Council of Catholic Women (NCCW), Margaret Mealey; Representative Edith Green of Oregon (on edge of frame, 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.