Information: The first column shows data points from Boyer, Gene (Genevieve Cohen), 1925-2003 in red. The third column shows data points from Myers, Genevieve. in blue. Any data they share in common is displayed as purple boxes in the middle "Shared" column.
Boyer, born Gene Cohen in 1925, grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family in Milwaukee. She learned business skills at a young age from her father, who managed a number of shoe stores, and went on to study journalism at UW-Madison.
In 1945, Gene married Burt Boyer. The couple opened a furniture store in Beaver Dam and ran it successfully for 32 years. Although she was an equal partner in the business, Gene was excluded from the local chamber of commerce because she was a woman. That experience moved her to become an activist for women’s rights. Over the years she helped to start and run many feminist organizations, including the Wisconsin Women’s Network, the Wisconsin Business Women’s Coalition, the Jewish Women’s Coalition, the National Organization for Women (NOW), Wisconsin’s branch of NOW, and the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. She advocated for such causes as the Equal Rights Amendment, sexual assault reform, marital property reform, reproductive rights, sex education, and ending violence against women.
Boyer was most passionate about women’s economic equality. In the early 1980s she sold the furniture store and started a consulting company that focused on helping women in business. She advised women to “get in by the rules and play by the rules,” but then “change the rules.”
Boyer received many awards for her activism. In 1985, she was named National Women-in-Business Advocate of the Year by the Reagan administration. She served on the Planning Committee on the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1994-1995, and in 1997 she was named Wisconsin Stateswoman of the Year by the Wisconsin Women’s Network. She died in 2003 at the age of 78.
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GENE COHEN BOYER, Wisconsin Women Making History, viewed 9/10/21
Boyer, born Gene Cohen in 1925, grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family in Milwaukee. She learned business skills at a young age from her father, who managed a number of shoe stores, and went on to study journalism at UW-Madison.<p>
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In 1945, Gene married Burt Boyer. The couple opened a furniture store in Beaver Dam and ran it successfully for 32 years. Although she was an equal partner in the business, Gene was excluded from the local chamber of commerce because she was a woman. That experience moved her to become an activist for women’s rights. Over the years she helped to start and run many feminist organizations, including the Wisconsin Women’s Network, the Wisconsin Business Women’s Coalition, the Jewish Women’s Coalition, the National Organization for Women (NOW), Wisconsin’s branch of NOW, and the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. She advocated for such causes as the Equal Rights Amendment, sexual assault reform, marital property reform, reproductive rights, sex education, and ending violence against women.
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Boyer was most passionate about women’s economic equality. In the early 1980s she sold the furniture store and started a consulting company that focused on helping women in business. She advised women to “get in by the rules and play by the rules,” but then “change the rules.”
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Boyer received many awards for her activism. In 1985, she was named National Women-in-Business Advocate of the Year by the Reagan administration. She served on the Planning Committee on the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1994-1995, and in 1997 she was named Wisconsin Stateswoman of the Year by the Wisconsin Women’s Network. She died in 2003 at the age of 78.
Darcy, Lynne. Papers of NOW officers, 1971-1976 (inclusive).
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Papers of NOW officers, 1971-1976 (inclusive).
Collection includes correspondence, reports, press releases, minutes, printed material, notes, etc., mostly concerning Darcy's work with NOW's Task Force on Compliance and Enforcement. This work included sex discrimination actions taken by individual NOW members, NOW chapters, and the task force, particularly actions against Xerox and General Mills. There are also files from the Task Force on Compliance and Enforcement created by Mary Lynn Myers and Joan Hull, earlier task force coordinators.
This collection contains correspondence, minutes, agendas, printed material, notes, clippings, and photographs relating to WSH's work as a feminist leader, with the bulk of the materials relating to her role as chair and later president of the National Organization for Women.
Audiotapes include NOW national board meetings and NOW national conference proceedings, as well as the National Abortion Clinic Defense Conference (1990), the National Young Feminist Conference (1991), and three regional conferences. Miscellaneous interviews and speeches include a number featuring Eleanor Smeal and others discussing the ERA. Materials are arranged largely in chronological order, where dates are identified.
Papers of Gene Cohen Boyer, documenting her participation in the development of political and economic feminism at the local, state, and national levels. A leader in the women's movement since the 1960s, she was a founder and first treasurer of the National Organization for Women (NOW), and later president of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. She was also a founder of the National Women's Conference Committee and the Jewish Women's Coalition, and president of the National Women's Conference Center (NWCC). The papers document her many activities and interests, and include biographical materials, correspondence, subject files, speeches, and writings. Also included are photographs, transparencies, and sound recordings of meetings and conferences of various organizations.
Collection consists of audio interviews conducted by Frances Kolb with past National Organization for Women (NOW) officers and members, regarding the formation of NOW and their roles in the organization. Kolb conducted the interviews in preparation for a book on the history of NOW.
Documenting the midwestern origins of the twentieth-century women's movement, 1987-1992.
Boyer, Gene. Documenting the midwestern origins of the twentieth-century women's movement, 1987-1992.
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Documenting the midwestern origins of the twentieth-century women's movement, 1987-1992.
Tape-recorded interviews and one transcript generated by an oral history project undertaken by graduate students in the University of Wisconsin Women's History Program under the direction of faculty member Gerda Lerner. The interviews document 22 of the outstanding midwestern leaders in the twentieth-century feminist movement and explore the connections between the women's movements of the 1920s and the 1960s. The interviewees include women active in labor, education, politics, religion, and business at local, state, national, and international levels.
Papers, mainly 1967-1972, of a Madison housewife and Republican politician who was a founder of Wisconsin Citizens for Family Planning, a statewide organization formed in 1966 to revise Wisconsin's restrictive birth control law. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1966-1982, and is described in the register. Additional accessions date ca. 1966-1967 and are described below.
ArchivalResource:
2.8 c.f. (2 record center cartons and 2 archives boxes); plus.additions of 0.1 c.f.
Collection consists of correspondence, clippings, research notes, printed material, audiocassettes, memorabilia, and writings by Kolb, focusing mainly on her work for the National Organization for Women, and her research documenting the history of NOW.
Women and Family Initiatives Office records, 1979-1982.
Wisconsin. Governor (1979-1983 : Dreyfus). Women and Family Initiatives Office records, 1979-1982.
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Women and Family Initiatives Office records, 1979-1982.
Records of Marlene Cummings, advisor on women and family initiatives to Governor Lee S. Dreyfus. This position within the governor's office, which replaced the Commission on the Status of Women in 1979, was meant to reflect a new focus on action rather than investigation. In 1979 Dreyfus authorized a general advisory committee and five voluntary task forces to plan legislation and programs in selected areas of concern. In 1983 the position was replaced by Governor Anthony Earl by the Wisconsin Women's Council.
ArchivalResource:
2.2 c.f. (2 record center cartons and 1 archives box) and.22 tape recordings.
Papers of Frances Arick Kolb, educational consultant, historian, and Eastern Regional Director and board member of the National Organization for Women.
Additional papers of Betty Friedan, 1941-2006 (inclusive), 1980-2000 (bulk)
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Boyer, Gene (Genevieve Cohen), 1925-2003
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Papers of NOW officers, 1969-1976 (inclusive).
Pollock, Mordeca Jane, 1941-. Papers of NOW officers, 1969-1976 (inclusive).
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Papers of NOW officers, 1969-1976 (inclusive).
Correspondence, notes, financial records, and printed material chronicle her work with the National Organization for Women; also included is correspondence regarding the debate between the NOW Majority Caucus and Womansurge over the reorganization of NOW during the mid-1970s, and three audiotapes, The New Feminism, written and read by Pollock.
Pollock, Mordeca Jane, 1941-. Papers of NOW officers, 1969-1976 (inclusive).
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Boyer, Gene (Genevieve Cohen), 1925-2003
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Records, 1967-1990
Records, 1967-1990
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Records, 1967-1990
Correspondence, minutes, reports, audiotapes, etc., of Boston National Organization for Women, an organization working for legal, economic, and social equality for women.
ArchivalResource:
19 cartons, 5 supersize folders, 1 oversize box, 3 oversize folders, 2 folio+ folders, 1 folio folder, 4 photograph and color slide folders, 4 folders of memorabilia, and 216 audiotapes
Collection consists of personal and professional correspondence; photographs; scrapbooks; oral histories; speeches; clippings; and minutes, bylaws, financial records, reports, and other publications of the organizations with which Rawalt was affiliated.
Papers of Betty Friedan, 1941-2006 (inclusive), 1980-2000 (bulk).
Friedan, Betty. Papers of Betty Friedan, 1941-2006 (inclusive), 1980-2000 (bulk).
Title:
Papers of Betty Friedan, 1941-2006 (inclusive), 1980-2000 (bulk).
Collection includes include personal and business correspondence, drafts of books and articles, financial and legal documents, research and teaching notes, and organizational records of Men, Women and Media, an organization Friedan co-founded in 1988 to analyze gender parity and representation in different forms of media. Responses from friends and readers to Friedan's books The Second Stage (1981) and The Fountain of Age (1993) are included, as are reviews, clippings, and lecture material, much of it about aging. Some material documents Friedan's involvement with feminist and Jewish organizations, as well as with New York City, Long Island, and national politics. Also audio- and videotapes shelved and described separately.
Friedan, Betty. Papers of Betty Friedan, 1941-2006 (inclusive), 1980-2000 (bulk).
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Boyer, Gene (Genevieve Cohen), 1925-2003
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Records, 1967-1990 (inclusive).
Boston N.O.W. Records, 1967-1990 (inclusive).
Title:
Records, 1967-1990 (inclusive).
The records include by-laws; minutes and other papers concerning board and general meetings; correspondence; records of committees and task forces; subject files; press releases and clippings; financial records; memorabilia; photographs, color slides; and audiotapes of "Now We're Talking," a weekly radio show, 1974-1980.
Papers of Marguerite Rawalt, attorney and officer in the National Federation of Business and Professional Women, National Organization for Women, and Women's Equity Action League.
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