Eleanor Roosevelt was a strong independent and outspoken woman, who used her status and influence toward the rights of all human beings. A woman who through sheer determination to have her way, made major changes for women, the poverty stricken and African-Americans rights as citizens of the United States of America. She addressed the issues of the American people with fervor, however there were drawbacks. She was also a woman and could only influence and proceed in her endeavors as far as the male heads of state and her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt would allow.
Mrs. Roosevelt was instrumental in the hiring of many women to work in the White House administration. These women worked on social and economical reforms that would benefit all Americans. Her wanting only female journalists to attend her press conferences, compelled news papers to have to hire, and keep on wome
In Mrs. Roosevelt’s press conference, 15 Jun 1933, on the topic: “Need for women to understand news”(178). She addresses women to become concerned with current affairs, by reading the paper or watching the news, and forming their own opinions and thoughts. This gives women the opportunity to become more intellectual in World affairs.
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