Records 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. Included are general minutes, correspondence, and financial records of the network and additional minutes, action alerts, correspondence, legislative hearing testimony, and press materials of the Reproductive Rights, Marital Property, and other task forces. The Wisconsin Women's Education Fund is extensively documented as both an independent organization and a WWN task force. In addition, there 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 correspondence, financial records, grant files, publicity, and reports for three major WWEF projects: Attitudes, Women and Employment and Skilled Jobs for Women, which were both concerned with employment training for women; and Uncommon Lives of Common Women, a book by Victoria Brown.
