American Women on the Move by Leader Shelah Gilbert;Hyatt Patricia Rusch;

Author:Leader, Shelah Gilbert;Hyatt, Patricia Rusch;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Workshops and Activities for Non-Delegates

The Exhibit Hall at the official IWY Conference was two football fields long. One-third of the hall was a concession area; the remaining two-thirds held booth displays by forty-five states, twenty-two U.S. government agencies, plus eighty booths for professional women’s and non-profit organizations, forty booths for woman-owned businesses, seven commercial booths, and seven exhibits by labor unions. The Seneca Falls South stage featured thirty-four hours of programming over two and a half days, from international panels on child care, the arms race, media bias, to comedy workshops, a feminist mime, the lyric soprano Emma Goldman, modern dance, and Tae Kwan Do self-defense demonstrations. Twenty-five well-attended discussions dealt with women’s history. Twenty-four films by or about women were shown. Among those on the schedule: “Does Anybody Need Me Any More?” starring Maureen Stapleton as an older wife finding a job; “Nobody’s Victim,” on personal safety and how to avoid or meet the danger of rape; “Sugar and Spikes,” on the move to integrate school sports and Little League; “Salt of the Earth,” on Chicano miners, their families, and class conflicts in the Southwest; “In the Best Interests of the Children,” on lesbian mothers who fought in court to retain custody of their children; and “How We Won the Vote,” a history of the suffrage movement and origins of the ERA.

Every participant in a workshop on “How to File a Discrimination Case” filed one within one a week after the conference ended, according to Jane O’Reilly, syndicated columnist.[33]

Unofficial conference attendees also had the opportunity to attend a series of lectures by some fifty speakers. Among the impressive list of presenters in “Briefings from the Top, A Distinguished Women in Government” lecture series were Barbara Blum of the Environmental Protection Agency; Carin Clauss and Alexis Herman of the Department of Labor; Donna E. Shalala of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; Eileen Shanahan and Mary F. Berry of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; Esther Peterson of the Consumer Affairs Bureau; Patsy Mink of the House Committee on Oceans, International Environment, and Scientific Affairs; Jill Wine-Volner from the Department of the Army; Federal Judge Sarah T. Hughes, North District of Texas; Eleanor Holmes Norton of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Carol Tucker Foreman of the Department of Agriculture; Arvonne Fraser of the Agency for International Development; and Oceola S. Hall of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Additionally, pro-active skills clinics and success stories were led by women who were also heavy-hitter experts and some of the nation’s most accomplished community activists of the 1970s and years thereafter. Although those workshops were each offered up to three times during the four days of the conference, they were largely ignored or unattended by media focused on the plenaries. And yet, the topics addressed are still necessary and relevant today.

Among those workshops were:

“How to Influence Schools” by Clelia Steele and Lynda Weston, who were, respectively, the associate director and the head of research for PEER, the Project on Equal Education Rights, based in Washington, DC.

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