Wrote pioneering legislation & created long-lasting political organizations

co-founder and co-editor with her brother Max Eastman of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator (1918-1922); co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and co-founder in 1920 of the American Civil Liberties Union; 1909 was appointed to the New York State Commission of Employee's Liability and Causes of Industrial Accidents, Unemployment and Lack of Farm Labor & drafted the inaugural workers' compensation law, a model that became the standard for the U.S.; advocated for "motherhood endowments" whereby mothers of young children would receive monetary benefits; 1913 co-founded Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, which became the National Woman's Party; co-wrote the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), first introduced in 1923; delivered the speech, "Now We Can Begin", following the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, outlining the work that needed to be done in the political and economic spheres to achieve gender equality; organized the First Feminist Congress in 1919; 1909 helped her brother Max establish the Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage; co-founder American Union Against Militarism

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