ABSTRACT
Merrillee A. Dolan of Albuquerque, New Mexico, chaired the National Organization for Women's Task Force on Women and Poverty in the early 1970s. In this essay from that period, she critiques the 1965 Moynihan Report and argues that its premises—particularly its idealization of male breadwinning and female dependence—continue to shape federal anti-poverty and welfare policy, including the Nixon administration's welfare reform proposals.
