NTE2cg529.xml Guide to the Washington Women United Records 1975-1986 Washington Women United Records Finding aid prepared by Tina T. Atkinson Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2022 Finding aid encoded by Suzanne James-Bacon. 2022 Finding aid written in English. English. Finding aid based on DACS 2nd Edition ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections Cage 529 Washington Women United (Organization) Washington Women United Records 1975-1986 2.75 Linear feet of shelf space 6 Boxes Business records, correspondence, pamphlets, writings, and other records of the Washington Women United organization. Collection materials are in English

The statewide organization Washington Women United (WWU) was established in 1979 by Washington State Women's Political Caucus members as an independent unit to replace the services of the defunct Washington State Women's Council. WWU's primary purpose is to promote equal rights through legislative action, education, and networking. Members include individuals and organizations who are advocates of women's rights and proponents of the Equal Rights Amendment. Membership dues and pledges are the basis of support for WWU. The primary activity of WWU is to lobby the Washington State Legislature on issues of especial concern to women such as child care programs, domestic violence, abortion, comparable worth, and education. An annual poll of members determines WWU's position and lobbying priorities and guides its legislative efforts. The group maintains a staff, office, and full-time lobbyist in Olympia, and coordinates a statewide referral and information service on legislative activity. In addition, WWU provides telephone lists, mailing lists, a hot-line telephone service, information on lobbying techniques, news releases on political positions and issues, annual meetings, and six yearly newsletters. The organization also sponsors an annual legislative reception for elected officials which allows women to become acquainted with their legislators.

Officers are elected by and from the Board of Directors, and include: President, First Vice-President, Second Vice-President for Eastern Washington, Third Vice-President for Western Washington.

The records consist of business records of the Washington Women United (WWU) organization and contemporary information about the Washington State legislature.

The collection is organized as five series: Business Records, Correspondence, Miscellanea, Women's Legislative Reception Reports, and Writings.

Business Records contain Board of Directors election results, committee reports, financial information, meeting agendas and reports, membership lists and delinquencies, minutes of meetings, and policies and bylaws. The Board of Directors meeting minutes are filed under the heading "Minutes."

Within the Correspondence files are letters and memoranda to the Board of Directors, general correspondence and memoranda, and thank-you letters to legislators. Letters from legislators to WWU are in the general correspondence files. A photograph of Linda Clifton, WWU President for 1981, is filed in the Board of Directors Letters folder.

The Miscellanea series contains files on statewide general elections, King County Women's Political Caucus Candidate Questionnaires, original forms and letters of the organization, information on other organizations, pamphlets on WWU complete with application forms, and other materials.

The Women's Legislative Reception Reports series contains information on the organizers of the Reception, attendance lists of legislators and the public, and invitations to the event.

The Writings series includes a booklet documenting the Fifth Annual Meeting, the book IMPACT: A Woman's Guide to Legislative Action, legislative reports and newsletters, and the WWU newsletters.

The collection is organized as five series. All papers are arranged chronologically within each file.

This collection is open and available for research use.

Copyright restrictions may apply.

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Washington Women United Records, 1975-1986 (Cage 529)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

The records were donated to the Washington State University Libraries by Washington Women United in July 1986 (MS 86-25).

Washington Women United Records, 1983-1986 (Cage 625)

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Washington Women United (Organization) -- Records and correspondence Washington (State) -- Politics and government -- Societies, etc. Women's rights -- Washington (State) -- Societies, etc. -- Records and correspondence Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Washington (State) Washington (State) Women Laws and Legislation Politics and Politicians Series 1: Business Records Board of Directors 1 1 Agendas and Related Materials undated, 1980-1981 Elections 1 2 1981 1 3 1982 Committees 1 4 Board of Directors Committee Reports undated, 1979-1980 1 5 Committee Roster and Sign-ups undated 1 6 Education and Communication Committee Reports 1979-1980 1 7 Finance Committee Recommendations 1979 1 8 Membership Committee undated 1 9 Finances 1978-1980 1 10 Forms and Letterhead undated 1 11 Legislative Task Force and Workshops undated, 1980-1982 Meetings Annual 1 12 undated 1 13 1979 1 14 1980 1 15 1981 1 16 1982 Board of Directors 2 1 January 30 1982 2 2 March 27 1982 2 3 May 15 1982 2 4 June 25 1982 2 5 September 18 1982 2 6 November 6 1982 Memberships 2 7 Corporate Members 1981 2 8 Former Organizational Members and Deliquencies 1979-1981 2 9 Membership Fee Payment (oversize folder) 1979 2 10 Organizational Members 1981 Minutes Board of Directors Meetings 2 11 1979 2 12 1980 2 13 1981 2 14 1982 2 15 Executive Committee Meetings 1979-1980 2 16 First Meetings 1978 2 17 Implementing Board of Directors Meeting 1978 2 18 Policies and Bylaws undated, 1980-1981 2 19 Telephone Number Lists undated, 1979, 1981 Series 2: Correspondence Board of Directors 2 20 Letters undated, 1981 2 21 Memoranda undated, 1979-1982 General 3 1 undated 3 2 1978 3 3 1979 3 4 January-June 1980 3 5 July-December 1980 3 6 January-June 1981 3 7 July-December 1981 3 8 January-June 1982 4 1 July-December 1982 4 2 1983-1986 4 3 Memoranda undated, 1979-1982 Thank-you Letters to Legislators 4 4 1979 4 5 1980 4 6 1981 4 7 1982 Series 3: Miscelllanea 4 8 Displaced Homemaker Organization 1980, 1982-1983 4 9 General Elections of 1982 undated, 1981-1983 4 10 House Standing Committee Assignments and Senate Standing Committee and Committee Assignments 1978-1980 4 11 Issue Poll 1980 King County Women's Political Caucus 4 12 State Legislative Candidate Interview Questions 1980 5 1 Candidate Questionnaires 1982 5 2 Legislative Platforms of other organizations undated, 1976-1977 5 3 Miscellanea undated, 1975, 1979-1980, 1983 Original Forms and Form Letters 5 4 undated 5 5 1979-1982 5 6 1981 5 7 Pending Requests for Membership Information and Options for Typewriter Rental/Lease/Purchase undated 5 8 Tax Surveys undated, 1982 Series 4: Women's Legislative Reception Reports 5 9 1975-1979 5 10 1980 5 11 1981 Series 5: Writings 5 12 Fifth Annual Meeting of Washington Women United Meeting Booklet and Flyer 1983 6 1 IMPACT: A Woman's Guide to Legislative Action 1984 (?) 6 2 Pamphlets with Membership Applications undated 6 3 Speeches undated 6 4 Washington Women United Legislative Reports and Legislative Newsletters 1979-1982, 1985 6 5 Washington Women United newsletters 1979-1982, 1984-1985 6 6 Information for publication in newsletters undated, 1979, 1981