Abstract
The 1969 Dissolution of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) produced hope that the burgeoning women’s liberation movement might establish a firm position of leadership in the New Left. At the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) II National Convention on Thanksgiving 1969, a faction of women demanded an independent leadership role within the organization. They demanded that at least half of RYM II executive positions be filled by women, that women’s caucuses form at all organizational levels, and that household and office work be divided between men and women. SDS had a long history of trivializing feminist demands. But RYM II embraced the women’s platform. And the RYM II women’s caucus assumed a position of influence rarely seen by women in the male-dominated New Left.
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