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1 Citizens' Advisory Council Releases Task Force Recommendations 1 (1968)

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Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women     FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
U. S. Department of Labor, Room 2131
Washington, D. C. 20210
(202) 961-3791

    CITIZENS' ADVISORY COUNCIL RELEASES TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATIONS


    The leadership capacity of thoughtful and informed citizen groups has been demon-

strated anew, said former Senator Maurine Neuberger when releasing reports of four

task forces of the Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women. Free of the con-

straints on government officials, the task forces have come up with advanced proposals,

which will stimulate constructive discussion on controversial topics and point the way

to needed progress. The task force reports were released at the Conference of State

Commissions on the Status of Women in Washington, D. C., June 21, 1968.

    When Senator Neuberger was named chairman of the Presidentially-appointed Council

over a year ago, she fbund that fast-moving events had overtaken recommendations of

the President's Commission on the Status of Women, of which she had been a member,

and appointed task forces on family law and policy, health and welfare, labor standards,

and social insurance and taxes.

    Some form of income maintenance was considered by three of the task forces.

When authorities in law, medicine, sociology, taxation, social insurance, and welfare

independently exploring issues in three different fields find themselves concerned with

income maintenance, we can be sure that the social problems related to income main-

tenance are very pervasive, said Senator Neuberger.

Family Law, chaired by Miss Marguerite Rawalt

    The task force on family law and policy recommended study by an appropriate group

of the complex subject of marital property laws and drafting of a model law looking toward

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