Women's Resource Center reference collection
Collection
Identifier: ACCN 2712
Scope and Contents
The Women's Resource Center reference collection contains articles, brochures, pamphlets, reports, research papers, studies, theses and other materials. The included records serve as reference materials pertaining to a variety of topics affecting women in the University of Utah community. The record contains no historical or biographical information about the Women's Resource Center or any of its employees.
Dates
- 1914-2001
Creator
- University of Utah. Women's Resource Center (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Conditions Governing Use
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Historical Note
The Women's Resource Center (WRC) at the University of Utah serves as the central resource for educational and support services for women. Honoring the complexities of women's identities, the WRC facilitates choices and changes through programs, counseling, and training grounded in a commitment to advance social justice and equality.
The WRC was founded in 1971 by a group of visionary women faculty, staff and graduate students. During the 1970s and 1980s the Center was at the forefront of many changes on and off campus. The Center helped found the Women's Studies Program in 1975 (later named Gender Studies), founded a training program in feminist-multicultural counseling in 1994, advocated for campus child care, monitored the general campus climate for women, advocated for the hiring of women faculty and staff, and established scholarship programs for single-parent, non-traditional aged and first generation students. The Center also played a role statewide and nationally helping to found: The Consortium for Utah Women in Higher Education; The Utah Math Science Network; The National Women's Studies Association; HERS/WEST, a professional development and networking organization for women in the Rocky Mountain West. Today, the WRC continues its tradition of leadership on women's issues. The WRC is engaged in social justice work to help end racism, sexism, homophobia and all other biases that may lead to violence, intimidation and threat on our campus.
(This information was taken directly from the Women's Resource Center website.)
The WRC was founded in 1971 by a group of visionary women faculty, staff and graduate students. During the 1970s and 1980s the Center was at the forefront of many changes on and off campus. The Center helped found the Women's Studies Program in 1975 (later named Gender Studies), founded a training program in feminist-multicultural counseling in 1994, advocated for campus child care, monitored the general campus climate for women, advocated for the hiring of women faculty and staff, and established scholarship programs for single-parent, non-traditional aged and first generation students. The Center also played a role statewide and nationally helping to found: The Consortium for Utah Women in Higher Education; The Utah Math Science Network; The National Women's Studies Association; HERS/WEST, a professional development and networking organization for women in the Rocky Mountain West. Today, the WRC continues its tradition of leadership on women's issues. The WRC is engaged in social justice work to help end racism, sexism, homophobia and all other biases that may lead to violence, intimidation and threat on our campus.
(This information was taken directly from the Women's Resource Center website.)
Extent
25.25 Linear Feet (62 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Women's Resource Center reference collection contains articles, brochures, pamphlets, reports, research papers, studies, theses and other materials. The included records serve as reference materials pertaining to a variety of topics affecting women in the University of Utah community. The record contains no historical or biographical information about the Women's Resource Center or any of its employees.
Arrangement
The records are arrange alphabetically in eighteen series, seven of which have been furter arranged in subseries. The original series and subseries titles were maintained during processing. The only exception to this arrangement is the alphabetical ordering by subject of the series and the files.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was transferred from the University of Utah Archives in 2013.
Separated Materials
Photographs were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
Processing Information
Processed by Melinda McFarland in 2013.
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- Academic theses
- Articles
- Bibliographies
- Brochures
- Case studies
- Civil rights -- United States -- 20th century
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Directories
- Equal rights amendments -- United States
- Feminism -- United States -- 20th century
- Instructional and educational works
- Law materials
- Lesbians -- United States -- 20th century
- Medical statistics
- Minority women
- Newsletters
- Pamphlets
- Reference works
- Reports
- Sex discrimination against women
- Sex discrimination in employment -- United States -- 20th century
- Sexual minorities -- United States -- 20th century
- Student Life
- Women
- Women -- Employment -- United States -- 20th century
- Women -- Health and hygiene -- United States
- Women -- History -- 20th century
- Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
- Women -- Religious aspects
- Women -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Women -- Services for -- United States
- Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Women in higher education -- United States -- 20th century
- Women's health service -- United States
- Women's rights -- United States -- 20th century
- Women's studies
Creator
- University of Utah. Women's Resource Center (Organization)
- Title
- Inventory of the Women's Resource Center reference collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid created by Melinda McFarland.
- Date
- 2013 (last modified: 2019 and 2024)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository
Contact:
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu