1977 Washington State
Conference for Women

The Washington State Conference for Women, sponsored by the National Committee on the Observance of International Women's Year, was held July 8-10 in Ellensburg, Washington. The Conference set out to meet four primary goals:

To bring together women from all over the state;
To identify barriers which prevented the women of Washington from participating fully and equally in all aspects of life;
To Develop a State Plan of Action with a timetable for removing barriers to equality
To elect 24 delegates to bring the Washingto State Plan of Action to the National conference, held later that year in Houston, and to represent the interestes of women in Washington.

The WHC has assembled a considerable amount of information on the Conference. The organization of this information, for use on the WHC site, in still in progress, but we have decided to begin releasing it. Below is a list of resources currently available in the WHC Collections.

Current Resources

WHC Collections

The WHC Collections includes numerous digital collections containing information about the Women's Conference in Ellensburg. The topics listed below are linked to those collections.

Ephemera

Conference Coordinating Committee

Conference Coordinating Committee see this list in the CWU Ellensbug Collections
News Release and Radio Transcript advertising the conference
Election of Delegates
State Plan of Action
Letters of Governor Ray

News Coverage of the Conference

Below is a sampling of some of the news articles written for Washington State papers before and after the conference. These articles are part of the Central Washington University collection.

Concerned Women's Coalition v. Washington State Conference for Women, et al.
Contested Ballot Request
Karen Fraser's Request For Representation