Women -- Employment -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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: [Barcode: 30550014970477]
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