EIN: 54-1670627
Independent Women's Forum
Washington, DC 20036
The Independent Women's Forum is neither Independent nor a Forum. Not independent because it is largely funded by the conservative movement. Not a forum, because it merely serves up women who mouth the conservative movement party line.
IWF: Pure Movement
The following facts about the IWF are from a May 1, 2001 Washington Post story about the IWF's growing political influence in the George W. Bush Administration:
The same Washington Post article described the following positions taken by the IWF:
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May 20, 2019
People for the American Way profile of IWF
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=11625
May 20, 2016
IRC Right Web profile of IWF
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1485
Nancy Pfotenhauer
Independent Womens Forum
January 18, 2005
Independent Women's Forum defends statements by Harvard President Lawrence Summers
http://www.iwf.org/articles/article_detail.asp?ArticleID=715
"President Summers is being vilified for telling the truth about women," said Nancy Pfotenhauer, president and CEO of the Independent Women's Forum.
Feminist Majority Foundation Online
November 4, 2004
State Department Funds Anti-Women's Rights Group To Train Iraqi Women
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/printnews.asp?id=8669
Secretary of State Colin Powell announced that the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), was one of the recipients awarded part of a $10 million grant to train Iraqi women in the skills of democratic public life. IWF’s website states that their mission is to counter "the dangerous influence of radical feminism in the courts" and to combat "corrosive feminist ideology on campus." It was "established to combat the women-as-victims, pro-big-government ideology of radical feminism."
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Scoobie Davis
May 23, 2004
Independent?
http://www.scoobiedavis.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_scoobiedavis_archive.html#108537673703368189
Today's (Sun., May 23, 2004) LA Times had an article that featured a slam against (Democratic Presidential candidate John) Kerry and that misrepesents his religion. It was written by Charlotte Allen of the Independent Women's Forum...
Bill Berkowitz
Working for Change
October 24, 2002
TeamBush to abused women: Fuhgedaboutit!
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=13980
Right-wing appointees spread their wings across the Beltway
"Family Violence Prevention Fund President Esta Soler said that "The IWF has been working to block progress on measures that can prevent domestic violence and help victims for many years. They distort the facts, disseminate misleading information, support the backlash against our movement and undermine our efforts to end abuse. It was simply wrong for Attorney General Ashcroft to appoint the head [Nancy Ptotenhauer] of an organization [IWF] that minimizes domestic violence to the federal Advisory Council on Violence Against Women."
Laura Flanders
WorkingForChange
February 21, 2002
Strategic Influence redux
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=12862
The conservative philanthropies are paying to place interns within major media institutions, who then in turn use the platform to push other conservative philanthropy product
Follow the amazing tale of how the conservative philanthropies subsidize interns free to journalistic institutions such as USA Today and The Weekly Standard. Two interns of the Collegiate Network -- itself an offshoot of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute -- wrote nearly identical stories parroting lines from the Independent Women's Forum's newspaper ads. One appeared in USA Today, the other in The Weekly Standard's online edition.
Both stories also promoted a certain website, www.SheThinks.org, which turns out to be a project of the campus division of the IWF.
What is the "Collegiate Network"? It is a place that supports "conservative campus journalists with money, free training seminars and technical assistance from mentors, including Heritage Foundation Fellow William Bennett..."
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Wendy Kaminer
American Prospect
December 31, 1995
Will Class Trump Gender?
http://www.prospect.org/print/V7/29/kaminer-w.html
The New Assualt on Feminism
I've long held the theory that when a woman wants to change her life, or some aspect of it that is bothering her, she first does something to her hair," writes Danielle Crittenden, in a stab at political commentary. As a young and conservative writer, Crittenden regularly addresses social issues with housewifely tartness, extolling Cinderella as a "role model" for little girls and chastising a woman who resists being addressed by her husband's name.
Trish Wilson Antonucci
December 31, 1994
Trish Wilson Antonucci's Indpendent Women's Forum Exposé #1
http://wlo.org/iwf/vawa.html
Writing for the Women's Leadership Network, Betsy Hart's Independent Women's Forum report about domestic violence and her wholesale condemnation of the Violence Against Women Act entitled "Violence Against Taxpayers" (Winter 1995, Number 2) betrays her ignorance regarding the complexities of domestic violence. She believes that groups such as the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, the Battered Women's Justice Project, the Resource Center on Child Custody and Pro tection, and the Health Resources Center on Domestic Violence ". . . view violence against women not as a criminal problem but as an ideological one.
Trish Wilson Antonucci
December 31, 1994
THE INDEPENDENT WOMEN'S FORUM: AN OVERVIEW
http://wlo.org/iwf/iwf2.html
The Independent Women's Forum promotes itself as a '... group of intelligent, capable, thinking women, who will bring common sense and a voice of reason to the social and political debates of our time,' according to the flyer that begs for $30.00 annual dues or other contributions. Just how accurate is this description?