What is Presidential Commission on the Status of Women?
{{Infobox document|document_name=Presidential Commission on the Status of Women|location_of_document=[[White House]], [[Washington, D.C.]]|image=File:Eleanor Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy (President's Commission on the Status of Women) - NARA cropped.jpg|date_created=January 20, 1961|commissioned=President John F. Kennedy|caption=Eleanor Roosevelt with President John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office of the White House in 1961}} The '''President's Commission on the Status of Women''' ('''PCSW''') was established to advise the [[president of the United States]] on issues concerning the status of women. It was created by President [[John F. Kennedy]] and was signed into law on December 14, 1961.<ref>{{Cite web|title=John F. Kennedy: Executive Order 10980—Establishing the President's Commission on the Status of Women|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=58918|access-date=2017-04-12|website=www.presidency.ucsb.edu|archive-date=2013-12-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202233905/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=58918|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1975 it became the '''National Association of Commissions for Women'''. == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:John F. Kennedy]] [[Category:Government-related organizations]]