Wider Opportunities for Women, Inc.
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Brigid O'Farrell Tradeswomen Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-035
Abstract
This collection documents the academic and professional career of Brigid O’Farrell, an activist and independent scholar within the women’s labor rights movement. The material briefly includes her time as a student in graduate school, as a researcher for the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College, and as an active member in various tradeswomen and women's rights organizations, such as Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), the National Council of Women’s Organization, and more, as an...
Dates:
1976-2022; undated
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2013-003
Abstract
The Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. (OTI) collection contains correspondence, budgets, reports, clippings, newsletters, grant proposals, conference and event materials, papers of other trades organizations, videocassettes, and other materials relating to OTI. The bulk of the materials within this collection focus on OTI’s grant funded and community based projects, and events. Materials related to the Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) grant primarily focus on the...
Dates:
1973-2022, undated; Majority of material found within 1991-2003
Ronnie Sandler Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2016-014
Abstract
This collection documents the work of Ronnie Sandler, an activist in the tradeswomen’s movement. Much of Sandler’s work focused on expanding women’s access to fields where they had not traditionally been employed, such as building trades and transportation. The bulk of the collection focuses on Sandler’s efforts to organize with tradeswomen’s organizations to access funds from the Intermodal Surface Transportation and Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991, in order to train women for nontraditional...
Dates:
1942-2016; undated; Majority of material found within 1990-1998
Lynn Shaw Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2008-005
Abstract
This collection documents the academic and professional life of Dr. Lynn Shaw, a professor of electrical technology at Long Beach City College who has been a key figure in the labor and nontraditional women's occupation movement in Southern California as well as in national tradeswomen's groups. Materials include: professional organization and conference materials; materials concerning career development, including apprenticeship and curricular programs; reports; periodicals; Dr. Shaw's...
Dates:
1937-2019; undated; Majority of material found within 1950-2005
Women's Work Magazine Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SPC-2021-028
Scope and Contents
The Women's Work Magazine Collection (1975-1979) contains nineteen issues of "Women's Work" magazine, published by Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW)- an organization that offers assistance to women in order to prepare them for jobs that can provide them with eocnomic independence and equality of opportunity. Topics include: employment trends, career ideas, child care, equal opportunity, financial independence, single motherhood, women in politics, women in the miltiary, and other related...
Dates:
1975-1979
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Apprenticeship programs -- United States 4
- Sex discrimination in employment 4
- Building trades -- United States 3
- Discrimination in employment -- Law and legislation -- United States 3
- Gender and work 3
- Nontraditional employment for women -- United States 3
- Occupational training for women 3
- Career development 2
- Career development -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2
- Career development -- Planning 2
- Career development -- Sex differences 2
- Diversity in the workplace 2
- Gender and education 2
- Labor union members -- United States 2
- Women -- Employment 2
- Women -- Employment -- United States 2
- Women in the labor movement 2
- Affirmative action programs -- California 1
- Affirmative action programs -- United States 1
- Building trades -- California 1
- Career development -- Curricula 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Diversity in the workplace -- United States 1
- Labor laws and legislation -- California 1
- Long Beach (Calif.) 1
- New York (N.Y.) 1
- Occupational training for women -- United States 1
- Portland (Or.) 1
- Sexual harassment -- United States 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- Women in the labor movement -- California 1 ∧ less
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