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Women's Action Organization

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of Alison Palmer, 1971-1978

Collection Identifier: MC 390
Overview:

Photocopies of transcripts and exhibits of Palmer’s hearing before the United States Civil Service Commission, initial findings, and taped interview of Alison Palmer, concerning her sex discrimination suit against the United States Department of State.

Oral history collection of the Women's Action Organization, 1970-1979

Collection Identifier: OH-39: T-86
Overview:

Audtio recordings and transcripts of interviews focusing on women and their involvement in the beginnings of the women’s reform movement in the United States Department of State during the early 1970s, conducted by the Women's Action Organization, formed to address some of the long-standing inequities in the treatment of women in the State Department and its "sister" Foreign Service agencies.