As legislative vice president of the national organization in the early 1970s, she led the effort to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

[2] With NOW colleague Lucy Komisar, she lobbied for affirmative action guideline changes at the U.S. Department of Labor and the Federal Communications Commission.

Titled "The Half-Eaten Apple," the article was "one of the first attempts to examine alleged discrimination in the academic world," according to the New York Times.

That same year, she co-authored two feminist pamphlets, Business and Industry Discrimination Kit and And Justice for All, with Lucy Komisar.

She married again in 1956, to a poet named Gerd Stern, and had a son the following year; that marriage ended in 1961.

[1] In 1965 she married Thomas J. Scott, dean of the graduate division of the Maryland Institute College of Art.