Earhart helped established the first organization for women in aviation

Amelia helped found The Ninety-Nines, an international organization for women in aviation, in 1929. The organization's name was inspired by the 99 licensed female pilots who founded it. Earhart was the organization's first president, serving for two years and using her celebrity to promote the growth of American commercial airlines as well as encourage other women to pursue careers in aviation.

Aside from assisting in the organization of women in aviation, Earhart was also a member of the National Women's Party. She was an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment and was among those who met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House on September 22, 1932, to lobby for the amendment. During her meeting with then-President Hoover, she made the following statement:

“I know from the practical experience of the discriminations which confront women when they enter an occupation where men have priority in opportunity, advancement, and protection… I join with the National Woman’s Party in hoping for the speedy passage of the Lucretia Mott Amendment, which would write into the highest law of our land that ‘men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.”