Current Resources
The White House Council on Women and Girls produced Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being in March 2011. The report collects data on families, income, education, employment, health, and violence to analyze the well-being of modern women in America. The report was prepared by the U.S. Department of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration and the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget.
Women's Labor History Timeline
Washington State Labor Education and Research Center
South Seattle Community College
The Washington State Labor Education and Research Center at South Seattle Community College created a Women's Labor History Timeline that provides information on working women in the United States from 1765 to 2009. The timeline was compiled by Ariel Natalo-Lifton and Sarah Laslett for the 2009 Summer School for Union Women and Community Activists.
1977 Washington State Women's Conference
Central Washington University
The 1977 Washington State Women's Conference & Related Materials Digital Collection
is an artificial collection culled from multiple collections housed
in the Central Washington University Archives and Special Collections. The
collection (through public records, newspaper clippings, office files, video and
scrapbook images) provides a sense of the excitement and disappointment felt
by the women who planned and attended the 1977 Washington State Conference
for Women.
The Status of Women 1963-2006
Washington State Archives
This collection documents the activities in Washington State to both examine the status of women in the state and to enact changes to better meet the needs of the modern woman. The collection consists of materials from the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women; the Records of the Washington State Women's Council, 1971-1978; the Records of the Washington State Governor’s Interagency Committee of State Employed Women, 1970-2006; and the Documents and Reports on Comparable Worth in the State of Washington, 1964-1995.
Governors Papers Related to Women's Issues 1904-1984
Washington State Archives
This collection documents contacts between the Governor's Office, women, and women’s organizations, regarding women’s issues, women’s suffrage, women's rights, and comparable worth. It includes correspondence, legislation, proclamations, reports, newspaper clippings, booklets, information on comparable worth, and information from the Governor’s Commission on the Status of Women, the Interagency Committee on State Employed Women, and the Women's Council.
Women at Washington State University
The Women at Washington State University Collection includes photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbook items, and printed ephemera. Women from Washington State University and the surrounding community are the primary focus, including women students in the military, theater and dance, home economics, sororities, clubs, and other organizations. The collection also includes women in administrative and faculty positions at WSU, for example, faculty members Sue Durrant, who was a plaintiff in a 1978 court case arguing for equal opportunities for female athletes under Title IX, and Ruth Slonim, a poet and long-time WSU English professor.
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