ABSTRACT
This chapter sets the scene for the San Francisco Conference and the controversies that needed to be solved at the drafting of the UN Charter. In this chapter, the only woman delegate in the United States delegation to the San Francisco Conference, Virginia Gildersleeve, is presented with her work as Dean for the all-female college Barnard. Gildersleeve was the first appointed female on Franklin Roosevelt’s presidential campaign and opposed the Equal Rights Amendment to the American Constitution, which she felt to be discriminatory of women.
