Joyce D. Miller, an influential advocate of women who believed that equality for them in the workplace, can get better with the unions, who argued the case that broke in the male-dominated leadership of the AFL -CIO, who died on Saturday in Washington. He was 84 years.
The cause was a stroke, his son Joshua said.
Mrs. Miller was a supporter of women in the workplace for decades.
He was a founding member and later chairman of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, a national group that since 1974 has helped to organize women into unions.
In 1980, he became the first woman elected to the executive committee of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.
And in 1993, President Bill Clinton appointed her executive director of the Committee on the glass ceiling created by the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to study the obstacles to the advancement of women and minority employees against big business .
When he was elected to A.F.L.-C.I.O. board, had been in labor for about 20 years of management and used to working in a "sea of ??men," the AP said it would.
He was 52 years old and divorced with three children. A photograph from 1981 shows a wheel of his blue suit and pearls, smiling in the midst of 33 men dressed.
Miller has seen union membership, collective bargaining and labor contracts as the path to equality for working women, and believed that women should be part of the union of the administration ensure that attention was focus on issues of equal opportunities, equal pay, parental leave, child care, health insurance and discrimination against pregnant women in the workplace.
Presence was a tall, formidable, have a strong voice that has been good without a microphone (although he refused to talk to her first meeting of the AFL-CIO, said he did not want to appear as a " overbearing woman, "The 'AP report).
"Joyce has not hesitated to speak, to speak when he thought something was going in the wrong direction," said John J. Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, and he added: "He was very focused on equity and justice."
In 1982, during a conference in Manhattan, the difficulty of women being admitted to the Union as skilled construction trades and plumbing, Mrs. Miller had predicted a "feminization of poverty".
"Employers say that no real woman wants to work with a frog," he said. "The real truth is that no woman wants to starve."
And for those who argued that women earn less than men because they tend to take less demanding jobs, have been answered.
"When men were secretaries, office work pays well, and rose high," he wrote in a letter to The New York Times in 1985. "When women are secretaries, have reached an impasse on low pay.
The same happened when women replaced men as operators of sewing machines, bank ATMs and telephone operators. The market seems to realize that workers in a workplace subject to a sex change. "
Joyce Danner was born in Chicago June 19, 1928. His mother was a teacher and his father owned a grocery store. She was raised "with a social conscience," he said in an oral history project in 2000.
He received a BA from the University of Chicago in 1950 and a masters in social sciences and education is not 1951.
Classes for the unemployed and seeded his ambition to be involved in the labor movement. But despite their education, labor union, that only she could find at first with an operator assistant, receptionist and switchboard - although he could not write shorthand or - at the Cooperative League of America, a group common ownership of companies.
Later, as a regional training director for a union in Pittsburgh, discovered that their employees have received food stamps, but that women were less than men, because they thought the men would take them to dinner and collect their checks.
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