What did the characters in 'Mrs. America' look like in real life?
A two-time Emmy winner for her work on “The Americans,” Martindale embodies Abzug, who was another NWPC founder. The author of “The Gender Gap” was known for her trademark hats, though they were not allowed on the floor of the House, where she served for three terms in the ‘70s before running unsuccessfully for a Senate seat. Abzug died in `1998., plays Friedan, a key figure in second-wave feminism.
She would remain an activist, author and highly regarded intellectual into the late 1990s, including a late-'80s stint as a visiting professor at USC’s Annenberg School. Friedan died in 2006.Banks portrays Ruckelshaus, another of the many founders of the NWPC. An advocate for ERA ratification, she was briefly a White House assistant and head of the White House Office of Women’s Programs. The early ‘80s saw her as commissioner of the U.S.
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