On June 14, 1944, over two hundred women, representing seventy-five organizations, gathered at the White House for a conference on “How Women May Share in Post-War Policy Making.” Sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt, the conference centered on sharing arguments and strategies for ensuring women’s involvement in all aspects of the anticipated peace process. “The tasks of war, of peace, of nation-planning,” the attendees resolved, “must be shared by men and women alike … Women have been called upon to share the burdens of war, to stand side by side with men on the production line and to complement men in the fighting services. So women must share in the building of a post-war world fit for all citizens – men and women – to live and work in freely side by side.”1 These women demanded a place at the peace tables not only because they saw themselves as equal citizens, not only because they knew they had something to contribute to the peace process, but also because they felt themselves obligated to help secure the postwar world.