Records, 1981-1991 (inclusive).

Oettinger, Katherine Brownell, 1903-1997

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The elder daughter of Charles Leonard and Eunice (Bennet) Brownell, Katherine Brownell Oettinger was born in Nyack, New York, on September 24, 1903. Following the death of her father, the family moved to New York City, where Oettinger attended grammar school and Hunter College High School. She graduated from Smith College with honors in sociology and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1925; in 1926 she received a master's degree from the Smith College School for Social Work, having completed her f...

McAfee, Mildred H. (Mildred Helen), 1900-1994

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Mildred Helen McAfee Horton (May 12, 1900 – September 2, 1994) was an American academic who served during World War II as first director of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in the United States Navy. She was the first woman commissioned in the U.S. Naval Reserve and the first woman to receive the Navy Distinguished Service Medal. In addition to her distinguished military service, Mildred H. McAfee was also the 7th president of Wellesley College. She was a U.S. delega...

Curtis, Lucile Atcherson, 1894-1986

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Lucile Atcherson Curtis, daughter of Charlotte (Ray) and Frederick W. Atcherson, was born October 11, 1894, in Columbus, Ohio. She attended Miss Phelps' Collegiate School and the Columbus School for Girls and received her A.B. from Smith College in 1913. From 1914 to 1917, she was Executive Secretary of the Franklin County [Ohio] Woman Suffrage Society. In September 1917, she went to France as a staff member of the American Fund for French Wounded. In 1918, she joined the staff of the America...

Sandler, Bernice Resnick, 1928-2019

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Bernice Resnick Sandler (March 3, 1928 – January 5, 2019) was an American women's rights activist born in New York. Sandler is best known for being instrumental in the creation of Title IX, a portion of the Education Amendments of 1972, in conjunction with Representatives Edith Green (D-OR) and Patsy Mink (D-HI) and Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN) in the 1970s. She has been called "the Godmother of Title IX" by The New York Times. Sandler wrote extensively about sexual and peer harassment towards w...

East, Catherine Shipe, 1916-1996

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Catherine Shipe East (May 15, 1916 – August 17, 1996) was a U.S. government researcher and feminist referred to as "the midwife to the women's movement". She was a powerful force behind the founding of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and held several influential federal government positions throughout her career. Catherine Shipe East was born on May 15, 1916, in Barboursville, West Virginia to Bertha Woody and Ulysses Grant Shipe. She was the oldest of three children. Her mother suf...

Tree, Marietta Peabody, 1917-1991

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Mary Endicott Tree, known as Marietta, was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on April 12, 1917, the daughter of Malcolm and Mary (Parkman) Peabody. In 1925, her family moved to suburban Philadelphia, where her father served as rector of St. Paul's Church, and Tree went to Shady Hill Country Day School, followed by St. Timothy's, a boarding school in Maryland and a year at a finishing school in Italy. She then attended the University of Pennsylvania before marrying Desmond FitzGerald...

Schlesinger Library. Women in the Federal Government Oral History Project

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Under the auspices of the Schlesinger Library, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Women in Federal Government Oral History Project has interviewed 39 women in appointive and civil service positions in various departments and offices of the U.S. federal government. From the description of Interviews, 1981-1983 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006985 ...

Winston, Ellen Black, 1903-1984

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Ellen Black Winston (August 15, 1903 – June 19, 1984) was a social worker who worked to develop systems to support those who were underprivileged in North Carolina. She became the North Carolina Commissioner of Public Welfare and the first United States Commissioner of Welfare. Ellen Black Winston was born in Bryson City, North Carolina, the daughter of Stanley Warren Black and Marianna Fischer Black. She was one of five children; however, the first child was stillborn. Winston graduated from...

Beyer, Clara Mortenson, 1892-1990

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Clara Mortenson Beyer was a pioneer in labor economics and workers rights. She worked under Frances Perkins at the United States Department of Labor during the New Deal era, and was instrumental in implementing minimum wage legislation via the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Clara Mortenson Beyer was born on April 13, 1892 in Lake County, California. She was the sixth child of nine. Her parents were Danish immigrants, Mary Frederickson and Morten Mortenson. Morten Mortenson was a carpenter ...

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

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The Schlesinger Library had its origins in the gift of the Woman's Rights Collection (WRC) by Maud Wood Park '98 to Radcliffe College in 1943. Organized as the Women's Archives in 1948, it was renamed the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America in 1967 in recognition of the Schlesingers' strong support of the Library and the College. The WRC was originally housed in Longfellow Hall and the Women's Archives in Byerly Hall and moved in 1967 to the old Radcliffe...

United States. National Archives and Records Administration

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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records. It is also tasked with increasing public access to those documents which make up the National Archive. NARA is officially responsible for maintaining and publishing the legally authentic and authoritative copies of acts of Congress, presidential directives, and federal regulations. NARA also transmit...

Laise, Caroline Clendening, 1917-1991

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Caroline Clendening "Carol" Laise (November 14, 1917 – July 25, 1991) was an American civil servant, ambassador to Nepal and the first female Assistant Secretary of State. Born in Winchester, Virginia, to Elizabeth Frances (née Stevens) and James Frederic Laise. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from American University in 1938, majoring in public administration, and then a Master of Arts in political science from George Washington University in 1940. Laise worked as a coder for the C...

Ware, Susan, 1950-

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Grahl, Larry,

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Cheek, Jeannette Bailey

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Cheek was director of the Schlesinger Library, 1969-1973. From the description of Collection, 1857-1904 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007177 ...

Harper, Elizabeth J.

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Makel, Eleanor L., 1914-

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Brown, Elizabeth A.R.

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Merriam, Ida Craven, 1904-

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Ida C. Merriam (1904-1997) began working in Social Security in 1936, when she joined what become the Social Security Administration's Research and Statistics Bureau and rose to become head of the Bureau's Division of Coordination Studies, then Assistant Director and then Director of Research and Statistics. She retired in 1972 as Assistant Commissioner of the Office of Research and Statistics. She led studies on disability and health insurance, drafted reports for congressional committees, and d...

Kelley, Isabelle M., 1917-1997

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Isabelle M. Kelley (27 July 1917 – 29 November 1997) was the primary architect of the Federal Food Stamp Program. When she was appointed to be the director of the Division which oversaw the Food Stamp Program for the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), she became the first woman to run a national social program or lead any Division of a federal agency....

Kirlin, Florence K., 1903-

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Sargeant, Helene,

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Bain, Mary Anderson, 1911-

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United States. President's Commission on the Status of Women

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The Commission was established by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to examine the needs and rights of women and to make recommendations for "the diminution of barriers that result in waste, injustice, and frustration." Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the Commission until her death in 1962. From the description of Records, 1961-1963 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006800 ...

Horne, Dorothy.

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Fields, Daisy B.

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A specialist in personnel management, Fields spent 27 years in the federal government. In 1967 she was appointed a special assistant in the Federal Women's Program of the Veterans' Administration, charged with developing and recommending policies in all areas of personnel management relating to the status of women. After her retirement in 1971, she founded Fields Associates, a consulting firm dealing with equal employment opportunity and career planning for women. From the descriptio...

Deutrich, Mabel E.

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Administrator, National Archives. From the description of Reminiscences of Mabel E. Deutrich : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419492 ...

Coll, Blanche D.

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Biographical Note: Blanche D. Coll is an author and historian whose main area of research has been the history of social welfare in the United States. She was born in Baltimore, Md in 1916 and received the BS (1943) and the MA (1948) degrees from The Johns Hopkins University. Miss Coll's early work in charity organization began with the Family Welfare Association (1935-1940) in Baltimore. She has worked also with several government agencies including HEW. Her published w...

Lawton, Esther C. (Esther Christian), 1910-1998

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Esther C. Lawton worked for various U.S. governmental agencies as a position classification analyst. An early believer in the women's movement, Ms. Lawton served on a Treasury Department committee established in 1962 to discover the extent of discrimination against women within the department. Concurrent to her career in the Treasury Department were over 25 years of teaching at George Washington University. Throughout her career, Esther Lawton was a champion of women's rights and fair criteria f...

Democratic Party (U.S.)

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Rees, Mina Spiegel, 1902-

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Miller, Helen M. (Helen May), 1918-2010

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Wickens, Aryness Joy

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Economist, government executive; interviewee married David L. Wickens. From the description of Reminiscences of Aryness Joy Wickens : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309735816 Statistician and economic analyst, Aryness Joy Wickens worked at the Federal Reserve Board and the U.S. Department of Labor from 1926 to 1970. From the description of Papers, 1936-1978 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record ...

Olmsted, Mary S.

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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

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The Republican Party is a national political party in the United States, and was founded in 1854. In the 1864 election, the party took the name National Union Party to allow the participation of Democrats. From the description of Republican Party tickets, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 496362231 From the guide to the Republican Party tickets, 1864, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Prince, Georgiana M.,

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Deutrich, Bernice Marie, 1919-

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Tibbetts, Margaret Joy, 1919-

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Ambassador. From the description of Reminiscences of Margaret Joy Tibbetts : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451689 ...

Keyserling, Mary Dublin

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Economist; interviewee married Leon Keyserling. From the description of Reminiscences of Mary Keyserling : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86158528 Economist; married Leon Keyserling. From the description of Reminiscences of Mary D. Keyserling : oral history, 1977. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376757 Economist; interviewee married Leon H. Keyserling. ...

Benson, Lucy Wilson

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Chayes, Antonia Handler, 1929-....

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Bernstein, Bernice L. (Bernice Lotwin), 1908-1994

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Lawyer. From the description of Oral history interview with Bernice Bernstein, 1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513103 ...

Rawls, Nancy Vivian,

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Wells, Melissa

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Washington, Bennetta Bullock, 1917-

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Ware, Caroline F. (Caroline Farrar), 1899-1990

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Social historian, consumer lobbyist; interviewee married Gardiner C. Means. From the description of Reminiscences of Caroline F. Ware : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122565371 Caroline Farrar Ware, a professor of history and social science, received her A.B. from Vassar in 1920, her A.M. from Radcliffe in 1924, and her Ph.D. in 1925. Ware was an associate professor of history at Vassar from 1925-1930 and from 1932-1934...

Arrington, Ruth M.

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Morantz-Sanchez, Regina Markell.

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Bonfield, Lynn A., 1939-

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Hopper, Grace Murray, 1906-1992

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Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (née Murray December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended to create COBOL, an early high-l...

Marcy, Mildred Kester, 1913-

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Skelly, Madge.

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Ferguson, Mary Harrover

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Simonson, Joy R.

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Educated at Bryn Mawr College and American University, Simonson was senior program officer for the U.S. delegation to the International Women's Year conference in Mexico City in 1975. She served as assistant director of the Federal Women's Program, U.S. Civil Service Commission, and as executive director of the National Advisory Council on Women's Educational Programs, 1975-1982. The NACWEP was established by the Women's Educational Equity Act to advise the Commissioner of Education on administr...

Parker, Jacqueline K.

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Harrison, Cynthia Ellen.

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Harrison (1946- ) was chair of the Credit Task Force of the National Organization for Women and also active with local chapters in Northern Virginia and Essex County, New Jersey. From the description of Papers, ca. 1970s-1982 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006628 ...

Heath, Kathryn G., 1910-

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Hubbard, Charlotte Moton, 1911-1994

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Public relations officer and government official; b. Charlotte Moton. From the description of Charlotte Moton Hubbard papers, 1940-1970. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 745909960 ...

Victor, Wilma L., 1919-

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Butler, Virginia (Virginia L.)

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Morrison, Alice Angus

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May, Elizabeth Stoffregen, 1907-

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Economist and educator May was born in St. Louis, Mo., the daughter of Caroline Stumpf and Carl H. Stoffregen. As a student she had a keen interest in international affairs, and after graduating from Smith College (1928) studied at the London School of Economics, earning a Ph.D. in 1931. Her teaching career began at Goucher College in Baltimore, Md.; in addition she gave lectures for the Business and Professional Women's Club, leading discussions on how New Deal legislation affected the lay pers...

McLaughlin, Virginia Wood, 1915-

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Leimbach, Dulcie

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