Mavis Nicholson Leno is a political activist working on behalf of women's rights. In 1997 she joined the Board of Directors of the Feminist Majority Foundation, becoming chair of the Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan. Her husband is talk show host Jay Leno. A leading feminist in California, as well as the United States and internationally, she keeps a low profile in comparison to her husband, choosing instead to work behind the scenes of the non profit, … Wikipedia
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Mavis Leno has been chair of the Feminist Majority Foundation's Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan since 1997. The wife of "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno , she has been a longtime outspoken critic of Taliban treatment of women. She currently edition.cnn.com/2001/COMMUNITY/11/09/leno.cnna/
Leno joined the Board of Directors of the Feminist Majority Foundation in 1997, after playing an active role in the effort to defeat Proposition 209, the anti-affirmative action initiative on the 1996 California ballot. Leno assumed her role as Chair of www.comedycontact.com/mleno.html
Women make up more than fifty percent of the world's population, yet in some ways they're still treated as a minority, as a fringe special interest group to be catered to when necessary. Mavis Leno is out to change that. Mavis Leno is a Board member of www.thelavinagency.com/usa/mavisleno.html
