Records, 1969-1971 (inclusive).

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Records, 1969-1971 (inclusive).

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Correspondence, memos, notes, questionnaires, page proofs, final draft, transcripts, tapes, articles, and clippings. Contains papers of Bynum pertaining to her work on the Committee, the Women's Faculty Group, and the Committee on the Harvard-Radcliffe Relationship. Tapes contain testimony by Harvard University faculty, employees, and students on Harvard faculty women, day care and health services, part-time teaching and part-time study, graduate student housing, job placement, and discrimination against women. Also included are papers relating to the sex discrimination complaints against Harvard filed at Dept. of Labor and the Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare by the Women's Equity Action League and the National Organization for Women.

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Bynum, Caroline Walker.

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Women's Equity Action League

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Radcliffe College

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Walzer, Michael

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Committee on the Status of Women at Harvard.

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Formed in 1970 to study the status of Harvard's women students and faculty members, especially in relation to the question of the proposed merger of Harvard and Radcliffe, the Committee was chaired by Caroline W. Bynum and Michael L. Walzer. From the description of Records, 1969-1971 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006545 ...