Wider Opportunities for Women, Inc.
Organization
Found in 3 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
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
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
Filtered By
- Subject: Nontraditional employment for women -- United States X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Apprenticeship programs -- United States 2
- Building trades -- United States 2
- Career development 2
- Sex discrimination in employment 2
- Women -- Employment -- United States 2
- Affirmative action programs -- United States 1
- Discrimination in employment -- Law and legislation -- United States 1
- Diversity in the workplace -- United States 1
- Gender and work 1
- Occupational training for women 1
- Occupational training for women -- United States 1
- Sexual harassment -- United States 1
- Women -- Employment 1
- Women in the labor movement 1 ∧ less
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