- Founding President of the National Council for Research on Women
- Credited Anarchist Emma Goldman with doing much to influence the current women's movement
- Served as a Program Officer in Education and Public Policy for the Ford Foundation
Mariam Chamberlain is the founding president of the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW). Founded in 1981, NCRW is an alliance of 92 women's research and policy centers, over 200 international centers, and more than 3,000 affiliate members. NCRW channels its efforts into a number of different programs designed to provide the media and the general public with information about women's issues - information that buttresses the organization's leftwing stance on various political and social issues.
Prior to her work for NCRW, Chamberlain worked for three decades at the Ford Foundation. She was a Program Assistant in Ford's Economic Development and Administration Program, and a Program Officer in Education and Public Policy (where she helped develop the field of women's studies).
Chamberlain holds an A.B. in Economics from the Radcliffe Institute and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard. She has taught at Connecticut College, the School of General Studies at Columbia University, and Yale University. Publications she has authored and edited include: Women of Color and the Multicultural Curriculum; and Women in Academe: Progress and Prospects. Chamberlain is currently a board member of the Institute for Women's Policy Studies; the Feminist Press; the Women's Interart Center; and the Network of East-West Women. Chamberlain credits early-twentieth-century socialist Emma Goldman with having done much to influence the current feminist movement. Says Chamberlain, "Emma Goldman came into prominence during the early decades of the twentieth century as an anarchist, free love advocate, and powerful exemplar of free speech. In some respects she was a precursor of the modern women's movement. . . . Throughout her controversial public life and stormy private life, Goldman maintained her courage and idealism." Goldman, a radical libertarian socialist, was imprisoned three times - once for inciting the unemployed to steal; once for for conspiring to obstruct the military draft in 1917; and once in 1901, on charges of conspiracy to assassinate President McKinley.
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