International Women's Year audio recordings, 1977

Overview of the Collection

Title
International Women's Year audio recordings
Dates
1977 (inclusive)
Quantity
65 audiocassettes, 4 reel-to-reel audiotapes
Collection Number
A0236
Summary
The International Women's Year audio recordings document workshops and meetings that occurred at Utah's 1977 IWY conference in Salt Lake City.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Materials must be used on-site; no use of original material, access copies will be made available for viewing. Five business days advanced notice required. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law, condition of the material, or by donor.

Languages
English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Under the auspices of the United Nations, 1975 was proclaimed "International Women's Year" (IWY). A world conference was held from June 23 to July 4 of that year in Mexico City. As a result of the conference, the United Nations declared a "Women's Decade," a ten-year period in which women in all parts of the world would work to gain all the rights of full citizenship. Following the Mexico conference, the United States congress established the National Commission for the Observance of International Women's Year. Women's conferences were to be held in every state before the first day of July 1977. Utah's first Coordinating Committee meeting was held in Salt Lake City in February 1977.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The International Women's Year audio recordings document workshops and meetings that occurred at Utah's 1977 IWY conference in Salt Lake City. Some recordings are of poor quality. All recordings have been digitized and are available to listen to on compact disc.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Materials are arranged in series by workshops and by committee meeting, plenary sessions and task forces. Workshops are arranged alphabetically by meeting subject. Committee meetings, plenary sessions and task forces are arranged chronologially and by meeting type.

Related Materials

See also the International Women's Year records (Ms 236) in the Manuscripts Division of Special Collections.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Workshops, 1977Return to Top

Worhshops consist of discussions or panel presentations on the designated subject, followed by the formation through parliamentary procedure of recommendations by the session attendees. These resolutions would later be voted on by Utah delegates in committee meetings and plenary sessions and ultimately submitted to the national IWY conference in Huston.

Container(s) Description Dates
cassette
1-6
Aging

Audiocassette
1977
7
Arts and humanities

Audiocassette
1977
8-10
Basic needs

Audiocassette
1977
Reel
11-12
Child development

Reel-to-reel audiotape
1977
cassette
13-15
Employment

Audiocassette
1977
16
Enforcement of laws

Audiocassette
1977
17-18
Family violence: child abuse

Audiocassette
1977
19-20
Family violence: wife abuse

Audiocassette
1977
21-26
Health: health education, mental health, reproductive health

Audiocassette
1977
27-28
Homemakers, legal status

Audiocassette
1977
29-32
Lifestyles

Audiocassette
These workshops were for discussion only and presented no recommendations.
1977
33-36
Lifestyles duplicates

Audiocassette
Recordings 33-36 are duplicates of recordings 29-32. Additional compact discs have not been created for these cassettes.
1977
37-38
Media

Audiocassette
1977
39-42
Men

Audiocassette
1977
43-44
Polarization

Audiocassette
1977
45
Power

Audiocassette
1977
46-47
Rape

Audiocassette
1977
48-51
Women as students

Audiocassette
1977
52-53
Women offenders

Audiocassette
1977
54-55
Young women: life span planning

Audiocassette
1977
56-57
Young women: teenage pregnancy

Audiocassette
1977

Committee meetings, plenary sessions and task forces, 1977Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
cassette
58-65
Coordinating committee meetings

Audiocassette
Coordinating committee meetings consist of recordings of committees planning the Salt Lake City IWY and reviewing the recommendations brought forth from it. Thorugh parliamentary process the committee members decide which recommendations to put forth at the national conference in Huston. Recommendations are reviewed according to workshop subject. Items 61 and 65 are of such poor quality as to be completely unintelligible; items 61 and 65 are not available to listen to on compact disc.
1977 June 25; 1977 June 29; 1977 July 21; 1977 July 27
66-67
Plenary sessions

Audiocassette
Includes speeches of Helvi Sipila and Lola Redford.
1977
Reel
68-69
Task forces

Reel-to-reel audiotape
1977 June 30

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • International Women's Year (1977: Salt Lake City, Utah--Archives
  • International Women's Year, 1975--Utah

Form or Genre Terms

  • Sound recordings