”The Conferencia de Mujeres por la Raza, also known as the National Chicana Conference, was the first interstate assembly of Mexican-American feminists organized in the United States. It was held at the Magnolia Park YWCA in Houston on May 28–30, 1971. An estimated 600 women from twenty-three states attended it.” They organized around strong positions on gender norms and roles, calling for change in society. At the conference, “gender discrimination, abortion, and birth control were given as much importance... as inadequate educational opportunities, racism, welfare support, and employment discrimination, issues always at the heart of the Mexican-American civil-rights agenda.”