Summary Information

Title: Wisconsin Women's Network Records
Inclusive Dates: 1967-2009

Creator:

• Wisconsin Women's Network

Call Number: Mss 961; M2011-032

Quantity: 6.6 c.f. (17 archives boxes); plus additions of 3.0 c.f.

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records, 1967-2009, of the Wisconsin Women's Network (WWN), a coalition of Wisconsin women's groups and individuals originally formed in 1979 as the Feminists Advocacy Network (FAN) to facilitate coordination and communications between organizations and to advocate for women's issues. WWN continued the work of the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, a government organization dissolved in 1979. Also included are records of the Wisconsin Women's Education Fund (WWEF), originally founded in 1973 as the Wisconsin Feminists Project Fund, an independent organization which became a task force of the Wisconsin Women's Network. WWEF raised money to support the network, and it published Stateswoman, a legislative newsletter. The Wisconsin Women's Education Fund is extensively documented as both an independent organization and a WWN task force. Included also are papers of Ellen O'Brien Saunders, a WWEF founder, concerning her involvement with the Affirmative Action Executive Commission, the Employment Relations Study Commission, the Intergovernmental Personnel Act project, the International Women's Years, and the Institute on Comparable Worth; as well as materials for three major WWEF projects: two employment training programs and a book project.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00961

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