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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
Tradeswomen Archive Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-036
Abstract
This collection contains articles; clippings; magazines; newsletters; t-shirts; stickers; pins; tote bags; conference programs; photographs; flyers; and other material donated by women who worked in trades' professions (tradeswomen) such as: electricians, ironworkers, carpenters, and other trades. Also included is material related to tradeswomen involvement in labor unions, and the nontraditional women's occupation movement. For digitized material related to all tradeswomen archives...
Dates:
1971-2023; undated; Majority of material found within 1990-2020
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
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- Affirmative action programs -- United States 1
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- Building trades -- United States 1
- Career development 1
- Discrimination in employment -- Law and legislation -- United States 1
- Diversity in the workplace -- United States 1
- Electricians 1
- Labor unions 1
- Occupational training for women 1
- Occupational training for women -- United States 1
- Sex discrimination in employment 1
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- Structural steel workers 1
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- Wider Opportunities for Women, Inc. 2
- Andrews, Thomas H. (Thomas Hiram), 1953- 1
- Boston Tradeswomen's Network 1
- Brown, Hattie 1
- Butler, Linda Lyons 1
- Dassler, Lee 1
- Frank, Sandra 1
- Gilbert, Jane 1
- Golding, Priscilla 1
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 1
- Leahy, Patrick 1
- Maine. Department of Transportation 1
- McCormick, Dale 1
- Mitchell, George J. (George John), 1933- 1
- Morella, Constance A., 1931- 1
- Ms. Foundation for Women (U.S.) 1
- National Tradeswomen’s Network 1
- New Hampshire. Department of Transportation 1
- Northeast Women in Transportation (NEWIT) 1
- Northern New England Tradeswomen, Inc. 1
- Perkins, Janet 1
- Sanders, Bernard 1
- Sheet Metal Occupational Health Institute Trust 1
- Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association 1
- Takagi, Tani 1
- Tradeswomen of Philadelphia/Women in Non-traditional Work, Inc. (TOP/WIN) 1
- United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry 1
- United States. Department of Labor 1
- United States. Federal Highway Administration 1
- United States. Intermodal Surface Transportation and Efficiency Act of 1991 1
- WOMEN Unlimited, Inc. 1
- Wisconsin. Department of Transportation 1
- Women in the Building Trades 1
- Women’s Project 1 ∧ less
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