Patricia Gold, 1935-

Patricia Gold was born in the Bronx, N.Y., in 1935, and grew up in a Jewish household in Queens, where she was active in the youth chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She moved to Watertown, Mass., at the age of 30, is married to Burton Greenberg, and works as a nurse at the Emerson Convalescent Home in Watertown.

In the 1960s, she was inspired by The Feminine Mystique to join the women's movement. She has challenged dress codes and "men only" restrictions in exclusive restaurants, served on the Health Task Force of the Massachusetts Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, worked on the state Equal Rights Amendment campaign, and helped write a chapter for the first draft of the book, Our Bodies, Ourselves . PG has been involved in many protests, teach-ins, and birth control campaigns, and was a charter member of the Boston chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). She is also a member of the Older Women's League and the National Women's Health Network.