Contributing Editor, Ladies Home Journal Mrs. Viola H. Hymes, National President, National Council of Jewish Women Edgar F. Kaiser, Industrialist Miss Margaret J. Mealey, Executive Director, National Council of Catholic Women Katherine Pollak Ellickson, Assistant Director of Social Security, AFL–CIO Miss Marguerite Rawalt, lawyer, former president of National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs; branch chief in Office of Chief Counsel, IRS William F. Schnitzler, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL–CIO Dr. Caroline Ware, Sociologist, Historian for UNESCO Dr. Cynthia Clark Wedel, psychologist, teacher, former Vice President, National Council of Churches; Member, National Board of Girl Scouts of the USA Dr. Lillian Holland Harvey, Nurse, Dean of the Tuskegee School of Nursing Rawalt helped found the National Organization for Women after she served on the PCSW. "American Women" On October 11, 1963, coinciding with what would have been Eleanor Roosevelt's 79th birthday, the PCSW issued its final report, entitled "American Women", documenting the status of American women and making recommendations for further action. The report criticized inequalities facing the American woman in a "free" society while acknowledging the importance of women's traditional gender roles. Reflecting the then-position of labor and Kennedy's labor ties, the report avoided a flat statement about the Equal Rights Amendment. Instead, it stated that constitutional equality between men and women was essential and should be achieved through a Supreme Court decision holding that women were protected by the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause. The Commission stated that because women were already entitled to constitutional protection against discrimination, it did not "now" endorse a constitutional amendment. However, some key members of the Commission said privately that they would support an equal rights amendment if the Court refused to extend the Fourteenth Amendment to cover women. Coverage of the Commission and Report U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau head Esther Peterson appeared on The Today Show to discuss commission findings and ramifications. The Associated Press ran a four-part nationwide story on the final report recommendations, and a 1965 mass-market book was published of the findings. By 1962, the creation of a national commission encouraged states and localities (cities, colleges and universities, etc.) to begin studying women's status in their areas. All fifty states had commissions in operation by 1967. In 1970 these commissions formed the Interstate Association of Commissions on the Status of Women (IACSW) and in 1975, the IACSW became the National Association of Commissions for Women (NACW) (). At