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How Jimmy Carter championed women's rights

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Here & Now Newsroom

January 01, 2025

President Jimmy Carter meets in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Dec. 16, 1980 with members of the President's Advisory Committee on Women. (Charles Tasnadi/AP)

As Here & Now continues to remember the life and legacy of former President Jimmy Carter, host Deepa Fernandes speaks to Laura Neuman, a senior advisor at the Carter Center, about the work Carter did to champion women's rights and raise women up in his administration and subsequent organizations.

This segment aired on January 1, 2025.

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