Women's Resource Center reference collection, 1914-2001

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.)