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Papers re: the founding of the WEAL Fund.

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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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Candela, Christine.

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Christine Candela was president of the Women's Equity Action League in the mid 1970s. The WEAL Fund was incorporated in 1972 as a tax-deductible arm of WEAL to help secure legal rights for women and to carry on education and research projects on sex discrimination. In 1981 it merged with WEAL. From the description of Papers. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007551 ...

Women's Equity Action League

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WEAL was founded in 1968 by a group of professional women, mostly lawyers, in Cleveland, Ohio, who originally hoped to begin a NOW (National Organization for Women) chapter. Realizing NOW's agenda would not garner widespread support in Cleveland, they began their own group and limited their concerns to education, legislation, and the economic rights of women. WEAL challenged sex discrimination on college campuses, in the military, and in the work place. The WEAL Fund was established in 1972 as t...