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Montana Women's Lobby records, 1982-2014

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Montana Women's Lobby
Title
Montana Women's Lobby records
Dates
1982-2014 (inclusive)
Quantity
14.2 linear feet of shelf space
Collection Number
MC 271
Summary
This collection consists of board minutes (1985-2014), legislative subject files (1984-2013), correspondence and general administrative files, general subject files (1980s-1992), and financial records for the Montana Women's Lobby and it's predecessor the Women's Lobbyist Fund. Subject files include topics such as abortion, veteran's preference, Women's Lobby history, comparable worth, insurance, taxation, and gender equity.
Repository
Montana Historical Society, Library & Archives
Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT
59620-1201
Telephone: 4064442681
Fax: 4064445297
mhslibrary@mt.gov
Access Restrictions

Collection open for research. Some of the material in collection restricted. See inventory below for more information.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Historical Note

At a "Fighting the New Right" conference, held in Missoula in the Spring of 1982, a small group of women introduced an idea to form a lobbying coalition focusing on women's issues. The group was not to be a political action committee, or aligned strictly with any political party. Instead the coalition would pool its resources to hire a professional lobbyist to work on issues determined by the membership. The response was strong and within a few months the Montana Women's Lobby was formed. It's first board meeting was held in Helena in September 1982. The first officers included Kathy Van Hook, president; Sid Clack, vice president; and Connie Erickson, treasurer. Early organizational support can from Planned Parenthood, Montanans for Progressive Policy (MAPP), and Montana Committee for an Effective Legislature (MontCEL). In many cases the leadership for the Montana Women's Lobby came from the leadership of these groups. Drawing from considerable organizational and political talents, charter MWL members Kathy Van Hook, Paula Petrik and Diane Sands pulled together a large and diverse membership, including abortion rights activists, labor leaders, environmentalists, feminists, gay and lesbian organizations, human rights groups, and advocates for children and handicapped. By the end of the first year the fund had gathered over $20,000 from supporters across the state, and across party lines. By the mid 1980s the WLF was an established political force. Their activities included testifying before legislative committees; sponsoring "town meetings" to educate the public; providing leadership training for women; and giving technical and monetary support to local political groups around the state. To reflect their expanding activities and goals the WLF changed its name to the Montana Women's Lobby. Over the years the areas of major concern for the Montana Women's Lobby have included abortion rights; affirmative action; AIDS awareness and prevention; childcare; child and spousal abuse; comparable worth in the work place; human rights; non-gender based insurance rates; promoting women to public office; reforming Veterans Preference laws; sexual harassment at work and in the classroom; and welfare reform. The main office for the Montana Women's Lobby, is in Helena, Montana.

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Content Description

The records for the Montana Women's Lobby contain general correspondence (1982-1993) between MWL staff and members regarding meetings and events; financial records (1982-1990) regarding fundraising efforts and grant proposals; legal records (1986) containing agreements with staff lobbyists; minutes (1982-2014) for the board of directors, various subcommittee and the annual meetings; organizational records (1983-2000) including membership records, phone trees, personnel job descriptions; press releases (1982-1987); printed materials (1982-1993) including "From the Hill" and "WLF News" newsletters; and speeches (1987, undated) The majority of the records consist of legislative files, subject files and clippings files, all of which were created as research resources used to determine issues and positions advocated by MWL. Legislative files (1983-2013) are organized by legislative session, and then legislative bill number. They include copies of the bills, notes, exhibits, voting records and miscellany. Subject files (1982-1995) are arranged alphabetically by topic, and include clippings, reading materials, speeches, and miscellany on the topic gathered over several years. A portion of the subject files were added at a later date and were records kept by Pat Callbeck Harper who worked as a lobbyist and political consultant for public interest and women's rights groups. Clippings files (1982-1991) arranged alphabetically by subject. These topics may not have been addressed by the MWL, but they reflect the groups attempts to keep up on women's groups and issues around the country.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of the Montana Historical Society. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collection. In some cases permission for use may require additional authorization from the copyright owners. For more information contact an archivist.

Preferred Citation

Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers. Montana Historical Society Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged by series.

Location of Collection

14:3-3

Acquisition Information

Acquisition information available upon request

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection

  • General Correspondence

    • Description: Letters to and from Montana Women's Lobby staff and members regarding agendas, events and membership (scattered)
      Dates: 1982-1993
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 1-12
      Location: General Correspondence

  • Financial Records

    • Description: Budget information (reports and statistical information) (scattered)
      Dates: 1983-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 13
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Donations lists (scattered)
      Dates: 1982-1986
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 14
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Endowment (sample funding option model for Montana Women's Lobby)
      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 15
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Fundraising (reports and worksheets for various fundraising efforts)
      Dates: 1983-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 16
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Grants: ATR (A Territorial Resource) re operating funds and monies for Women's Lobby Outreach Project
      Dates: 1983-1987
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 17-19
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Grants: Hands Across America Program (re "Workshop Series on Hunger, Homelessness, and Poverty, Butte, Montana" to be co-sponsored by the Butte Community Union, Butte Ministerial Association, and Montana Women's Lobby)
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 20
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Grants: Montana Coalition Fund (re general operating funds and outreach activities)
      Dates: 1986, 1989-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 21
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Large donations lists (contains RESTRICTED information)
      Dates: 1983-1985
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 22
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Newsletter publication costs
      Dates: 1984, 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 23
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Miscellaneous expenditures
      Dates: 1982-1984
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 24
      Location: Financial Records

  • Legal Records

    • Description: Agreements between Montana Women's Lobby and lobbyists (re official duties)
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 25
      Location: Legal Records

  • Legislative Files

    • Description: Agenda (re issues followed by Montana Women's Lobby)
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 1
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 329 (re misrepresentation of voting record)
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 2
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 358 (re non-gender based insurance rates)
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 3
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 754 (re parental leave)
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 4
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 104, 271 (scattered notes, includes H.B. 404)
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 5
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Legislators' rankings (re Montana Women's Lobby ranking of legislators' performance)
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 6
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Legislators' voting records (includes special session)
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 7
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Special Session (Veterans' preference bills)
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 8-9
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bill tracking (re bills being followed by Montana Women's Lobby)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 10
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 15 (re unemployment benefits for non-professional school employees between terms)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 11
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 44 (re counseling for rape/incest victims)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 12
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 100 (re establishment of kindergarten programs)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 13
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 103 (re delinquent youth and rape convictions)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 14
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 111 (re veterans' preference)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 15
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 153 (re job sharing programs)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 16-17
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 165 (re unannounced inspections of long-term care facilities)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 18
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 228 (re living wills)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 19
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 284 (re unemployment insurance trust fund solvency)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 20
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 300 (re statute of limitations on childhood sexual abuse)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 21
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 301 (re preschool programs)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 22
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 310 (re temporary restraining orders)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 23
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 438-456 (re child support)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 1
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 473 (re veterans' preference)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 2-4
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 547 (re victims' rights)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 5
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 571 (re counselors licensing and regulation)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 6
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 595 (re social workers as providers of medical assistance)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 7
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 717 (re joint custody awarded only when both parents request it)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 8
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 793 (re warrantless arrest for misdemeanor not committed in presence of police officer)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 9
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 807 (re mandatory medical care for severely handicapped, ill, or injured children)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 10
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 814 (re Montana Women's Bureau)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 11
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 854 (re abortion and child rights)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 12
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 881 (re parental leave)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 13
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 903 (re child support)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 14
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.J.R. 11 (re reduction of funding for nuclear weapons)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 15
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.J.R. 19 (re priority referral and placement for pregnant teenagers)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 16
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.J.R. 53 (re interim study of the Human Rights Commission)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 17
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 19 (re establishing and funding a child abuse prevention program)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 18
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 81 (re denial of unemployment insurance to striking workers)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 19
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 103 (re inclusion of social workers in freedom of choice of practitioners for disability insurance claims)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 20
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 105 (re child support to include provisions for adequate healthcare)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 21
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 119 (re fees for child support enforcement to be covered by the payee of support)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 22
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 122 (re AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) benefits for both parents if unemployed)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 23
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 152, 253 (re joint custody of children)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 24
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 294 (re criminalization of marital rape)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 25
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 383 (re revision of laws relating to child support)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 26
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 449 (re mandatory arrest for domestic abuse)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 27-28
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Issues files (re funding for domestic violence programs, veterans' preference, includes issues on which MWL)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 1-3
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Legislators' voting records
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 4
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Publicity for public events hosted by Montana Women's Lobby (scattered)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 5
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Special Session (re state budget)
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 6
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bill tracking
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 7
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 2 (re state budget)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 8
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 38 (re veterans' preference)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 9
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 39 (re Vocational Technical Schools and the Board of Regents)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 10
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 41 (re auto insurance rate reduction for drivers aged 55 and older completing a safety program)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 11
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 52 (re gender or marital status used to determine auto insurance rates)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 12
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 57 (re addition of age in nondiscrimination provisions in state law)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 13
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 77-79 (re child support obligations and enforcement)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 14
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 90, 262, 566, 605; H.J.R. 13 (re child abuse and neglect)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 15
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 167, 209 (re non-economic damages in civil suits)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 16
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 241 (re wrongful firing)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 17
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 283, 284, 495 (re child custody rights including visitations, moving children out of state)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 18
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 377 (re state sales tax)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 19
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 387 (re Dept. of Revenue biennial report contents)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 20
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 400 (re age discrimination in housing)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 21
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 409 (re income tax deductions for dependent care)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 22
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 420 (re insurance reporting requirements)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 23
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 460 (re increase of divorce fees to fund displaced homemakers programs)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 24
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 466 (re veterans' preference extension to Montana University System)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 25
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 519 (re non-gender insurance)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 1
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 542 (re employment criteria for General Assistance eligibility)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 2
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 598 (re resistance not required to show lack of consent in rape cases)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 3
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 637 (re legislature discretion in allowing General Assistance)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 4
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 679 (re domestic violence arrest fines allocated to abuse programs and shelters)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 5
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 680 (re wrongful life, wrongful birth suits)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 6
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 695 (re expanded daycare assistance)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 7
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 696 (re appeals for Human Rights Commission rulings)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 8
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 710 (re interim study of Montana High School Association)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 9
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 817 (re liability funds for small businesses)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 10
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 866 (re marriage license fee increase to assist domestic violence programs)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 11
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 888 (re child care assistance to former AFDC recipients)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 12
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 900 (re teenage pregnancy)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 13
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.J.R. 10 (re balanced national budget)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 14
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 17, 18; SJR 1 (re Native American children and welfare programs)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 15
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 23 (re expansion of open meeting law)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 16
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 52 (re insurance rate limitations)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 17
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 149 (re P.E.R.S. (Personal Employee Retirement System))
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 18
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 169 (re comparable worth in employment for women)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 19
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 216 (re Medicaid expansion for post-natal, pre-natal, and post-partum care)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 20
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 315 (re workers' compensation)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 21
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 359 (re minimum wage)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 22
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Issues files: Taxation (includes M.A.P.P. (Montana Alliance for Progressive Policy) study on taxes in Montana)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 23-24
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Issues files: miscellaneous notes
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 25
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Legislators' voting records
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 26
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Luminaria ceremony on the Capitol grounds (sponsored by the Montana Women's Lobby)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 27
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Agenda (re issues to be followed by the Montana Women's Lobby)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 28
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bill tracking
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 29
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 28, 48 (re minimum wage)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 30
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 97 (re temporary restraining orders to be issued in cases of domestic violence)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 31
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 100 (re budget and appropriations)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 32
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 166, 294 (re dependant care tax credits)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 33
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 200 (re Child Care Act)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 1-2
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 271 (re instruction in abstinence in public schools in regards to alcohol, drugs, and sex; prohibiting teaching of birth control or sex education)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 3
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 336 (re housing discrimination against families with children)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 4
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 458 (re midwifery and licensing)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 5
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 593 (re counseling for persons convicted of domestic abuse)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 6
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 595 (re adding counselors to Medicaid services)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 7
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 617 (re Community Reinvestment Act)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 8
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 682 (re expansion of Housing Authority and Housing Authority Commissioners)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 9
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 688 (re allowing registered nurses to dispense prepackaged prescription contraceptives)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 10
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 700 (re veterans' preference)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 11
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 747 (re tax reform)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 12
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 765 (re micro-business development)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 13
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.J.R. 28 (re gender balance in public appointments)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 14
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 22 (re child support)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 15
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 38 (re women's prison)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 16
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 42 (re child support laws revisions)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 17
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 67, 70 (re medical assistance extension for AFDC parents who gain employment)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 18
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 101 (re revision of General Assistance)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 19
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 120 (re child support procedures in the MT Dept. of Health and Environmental Sciences)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 20
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 122, 157 (re child sexual abuse)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 21
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 124 (re AIDS policy against discrimination)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 22
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 129 (re child support withholdings from paychecks)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 23
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 145 (re Veterans' Administration benefits and Social Security payments garnishing for child support)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 24
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 164 (re abortion parental notification)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 25
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 164 (re abortion parental notification)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 1-3
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 177 (re establishing paternity)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 4
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 205 (re non-gender insurance law)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 5-6
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 282 (re employer assistance with childcare tax credit)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 7
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 314 (re private all-male clubs)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 8
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 378 (re corporal punishment in public schools)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 9
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 403 (re Montana High School Association regulation)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 10
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 437 (re AIDS testing)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 1
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Issues file: appropriations for various state programs
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 2
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Issues file: child support
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 3
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Legislators' ranking (re primary election)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 4
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Legislators' voting records (includes statistics from 1981 to 1989)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 5
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bill tracking
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 6
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 2 (re budget)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 7
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 24-26 (re adoption)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 8
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 60 (re excluding meal allowance from minimum wage to state employees)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 9
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 113 (re defining "force" in rape cases)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 10
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 124 (re use of employer assessment payment to Unemployment Insurance Administration to pay for Public Employment Offices across the state)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 11
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 152 (re minimum wage)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 12
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 260 (re insurance coverage for adopted children)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 13
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 269 (re indecent exposure penalties)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 14
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 270 (re obscene phone calls)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 15
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 272 (re community- based correction centers)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 16
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 281 (re HIV/AIDS testing of mentally- impaired or physically-disabled persons in emergency settings)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 17
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 291 (re temporary restraining orders issued in domestic violence cases)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 18
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 302 (re criminalizing "peeping Tom" activities)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 19
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 366 (re child protection services on Indian reservations)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 20
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 378 (re tobacco sales to minors)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 21
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 388 (re discrimination against pregnant women)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 22
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 400 (re displaced homemakers)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 23
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 424 (re gender balance in public office)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 24-25
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 451 (re sex crimes definition to exclude adult consensual homosexuality)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 26
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 477 (re Microbusiness Development Act)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 27
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 528 (re women's prison)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 28
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 614 (re increased cigarette tax)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 29
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 672 (re non-gender-based insurance rates)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 30
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 728 (re homelessness and poverty)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 31
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 752 (re divorce)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 32
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 758 (re parental leave for adoptive parents)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 33
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 761 (re testing persons convicted of sex crimes for STD (Sexually Transmitted Diseases))
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 34
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 788 (re Montana Abortion Control Act revision)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 35
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 849 (re child smoking)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 36
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 917 (re AIDS Prevention Act revision)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 37
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 937 (re Montana Child Care Act)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 38
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 950 (re Montana Family Policy Act)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 39
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: H.B. 996 (re flat federal tax)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 40
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 84 (re corporal punishment)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 41
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 151 (re Medicaid extended to pregnant women and families that earn 85% of poverty level)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 42
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 172 (re midwives licensing)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 43
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 344 (re use of deadly force to prevent rape)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 44
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 366 (re mammography screening covered by insurance)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 1
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bills: S.B. 404 (re parental notification of abortions obtained by minors)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 2
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Issues file: budget for childcare and J.O.B.S. programs within the MT Dept. of Family Services
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 3
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Issues file: budget for domestic violence programs within the MT Dept. of Family Services
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 4
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Legislators' voting records
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 5
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Agenda (re legislation to be followed by Montana Women's Lobby)
      Dates: 1993
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 6
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Bill tracking
      Dates: 1993
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 7
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Special Session: budget
      Dates: 1993
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 8
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Issues file: miscellaneous
      Dates: 1995
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 9
      Location: Legislative Files
    • Description: Legislators' voting records
      Dates: 2009-2013
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 21
      Location: Legislative Files

  • Minutes

    • Description: Annual meeting (Billings)
      Dates: 1985 May 18-19
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 10
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Board meetings (Helena, Great Falls)
      Dates: 1982
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 11
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Board meetings (Billings, Bozeman, Helena, Lewistown)
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 12
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Board meetings (Bozeman, Chico Hot Springs, Great Falls, Helena)
      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 13-18
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Board meetings (Bozeman, Helena, Missoula)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 19-20
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Board meetings (Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Great Falls, Helena, Missoula) (includes executive board meeting)
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 1-7
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Board meetings (Billings, Helena) (includes annual meeting)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 8-11
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Board meetings (Bozeman, Butte, Deer Lodge, Great Falls, Helena, Missoula)
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 12-17
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Board meetings (Billings, Bozeman, Helena)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 18-22
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Board meetings (Bozeman, Helena, Missoula)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 23-27
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Board meetings (Bozeman, Helena)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 1-5
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Board meetings (Bozeman, Billings, Helena, Missoula)
      Dates: 1992
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 6-11
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Board meetings (Kalispell)
      Dates: 1993 May
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 12
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Board meetings (scattered notes)
      Dates: 1994
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 13
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Executive board meetings (scattered)
      Dates: 1985-1986
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 14-16
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Leadership Planning Committee (Bozeman)
      Dates: 1982
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 17
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Legislation Committee (Helena)
      Dates: 1992 March
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 18
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Long-Range Planning Committee (Helena)
      Dates: 1986 July
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 19
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Nominating Committee (includes individual and organizational member materials, voting ballots, and miscellany)
      Dates: 1985-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 20-27
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Policy Ad Hoc Committee (Helena)
      Dates: 1984 February
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 28
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Board meetings (State)
      Dates: 2009
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 29
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Board meetings (State)
      Dates: 2010
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 30
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Board meetings (State)
      Dates: 2011
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 31
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Board meetings (State)
      Dates: 2012
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 32
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Board meetings (State)
      Dates: 2013-2014
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 33
      Location: Minutes

  • Organizational Records

    • Description: Annual incorporation registration with Secretary of State
      Dates: 1984, 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 1
      Location: Organizational Records
    • Description: Bylaws (includes notes for various revisions)
      Dates: 1984-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 2
      Location: Organizational Records
    • Description: Interns (includes applications and job descriptions for college interns)
      Dates: 1985-1987
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 3
      Location: Organizational Records
    • Description: Job descriptions (includes overall organizational structure, duties for all paid positions, interview questions, and job announcements)
      Dates: 1984-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 4
      Location: Organizational Records
    • Description: Lobbyist registrations (re report to the Commissioner of Political Practices)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 5
      Location: Organizational Records
    • Description: Long-range plan
      Dates: 1986 July 12
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 6
      Location: Organizational Records
    • Description: Membership records (includes policy, recruitment, renewal materials and member dues payment, and membership lists)
      Dates: 1983-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 7-16
      Location: Organizational Records
    • Description: Personnel policy (includes guidelines for benefits and vacations)
      Dates: 1985-1986
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 1
      Location: Organizational Records
    • Description: Phone trees (includes instructions, lists, and miscellaneous notes)
      Dates: 1983-1987
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 2-6
      Location: Organizational Records
    • Description: Structural model
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 7
      Location: Organizational Records
    • Description: Assorted organizational materials
      Dates: circa 1994-2000
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 27
      Location: Organizational Records

  • Press Releases

    • Description: Press releases (includes announcements of personnel changes, legislative agendas, reactions to national events, etc.)
      Dates: 1982-1987
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 8-11
      Location: Press Releases

  • Printed Materials

    • Description: Newsletters: Montana Women's Lobby publications (including "From The Hill" and "WLF News") (scattered)
      Dates: 1983-1993
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 12-14
      Location: Printed Materials
    • Description: Newsletters: other organizations "A" - "Com" (includes organizational members and affiliated groups from out-of-state)
      Dates: 1983-1993
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 15
      Location: Printed Materials
    • Description: Newsletters: other organizations "Con" - "N" (includes organizational members and affiliated groups from out-of-state)
      Dates: 1983-1993
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 1-2
      Location: Printed Materials

  • Speeches

    • Description: Speeches (re Montana Women's Lobby organization, authors unknown)
      Dates: 1987, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 3
      Location: Speeches

  • Subject Files

    • Description: Abortion: ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
      Dates: 1984-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Abortion: clinic access
      Dates: 1985, 1992
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Abortion: election endorsements (re pro-choice candidates for state offices)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Abortion: FIRST (For Individual Rights Sacred Trust) petition to legislature
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Abortion: "Gag Rule" (re prohibition on counseling concerning abortion option in federally funded clinics)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Abortion: legislative agenda, Montana (see "Legislative Files" for complete listing of bills)
      Dates: 1985-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Abortion: legislative agenda, other states and national
      Dates: 1983-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Abortion: minors (re parental and judicial notification laws)
      Dates: 1980-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Abortion: Montana Abortion Control Act Repeal campaign
      Dates: 1983-1985
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Abortion: Montana Pro-Choice Coalition
      Dates: 1980, 1983, 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Abortion: Montanans For Choice (includes correspondence, minutes, reports, statewide poll results) (scattered)
      Dates: 1984-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 4-7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Abortion: Opponents' literature (re abortion opponents' pamphlets, writings, etc.)
      Dates: 1991-1994
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Abortion: pro-choice campaign strategies (readings)
      Dates: 1989-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Abortion: Racicot statements (re Governor Marc Racicots public statements regarding abortion)
      Dates: 1990-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Abortion: religious organizations for choice (including Catholics for Choice)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Abortion: Reproductive Rights Coalition
      Dates: 1991-1994
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Abortion: Testimony (re Montana women and their experiences having abortions)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Abortion: Webster Decision
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Abortion: miscellaneous readings and pamphlets
      Dates: 1984-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 4-6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Abortion: newspaper clippings (Montana papers)
      Dates: 1989-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 7-10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: AIDS: Missoula AIDS Council
      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: AIDS: Montana AIDS Coalition
      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: AIDS: Montana sexual deviancy statute (re repeal efforts to ensure reporting of AIDS cases)
      Dates: 1992
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: AIDS: miscellaneous reading materials
      Dates: 1988-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 1-2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Build Montana Project (re economic development)
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Business and women (re small business incentives and professional development for women)
      Dates: 1983, 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Candidates training (re women and campaigning strategies for running for public office)
      Dates: 1984-1985
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 5-6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Child abuse: detection and prevention
      Dates: 1988, 1990
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Child care: Children's Defense Fund
      Dates: 1994
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Child care: Dept. of Family Services Daycare Programs
      Dates: 1988-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Child care: early childhood education programs' collaboration efforts
      Dates: 1993-1994
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Child care: Early Childhood Project (re Montana State University project to provide parents with information on resources available in Montana)
      Dates: 1987-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Child care: licensing of care providers
      Dates: 1985-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Child care: Montana Alliance for Better Child Care
      Dates: 1984-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 3-4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Child care: Montana Child Care Act (re Montana Women's Lobby position)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Child care: Montana Children's Alliance
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Child care: Montana legislature (re Montana Women's Lobby providing statistical information for legislators)
      Dates: 1990, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Child care: Montana Residential Child Care Association
      Dates: 1983, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Child care: tax credits (re business and personal costs of child care)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Child care: miscellaneous, Montana
      Dates: 1987-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Child care: miscellaneous, out-of-state
      Dates: 1983-1986
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 11-12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Child support: enforcement
      Dates: 1991-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Comparable worth: As If Women Mattered Conference
      Dates: 1984 September 28-29
      Container: Box/Folder 19 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Comparable worth: statistics
      Dates: 1983-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 19 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Comparable worth: town meeting survey, Helena
      Dates: 1983 October 19
      Container: Box/Folder 19 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Comparable worth: miscellany, Montana
      Dates: 1983-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 19 / 4-5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Comparable worth: miscellany, national
      Dates: 1982-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 19 / 6-8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Domestic violence: Montana (includes survey of services for victims)
      Dates: 1984-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 20 / 1-2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Domestic violence: national
      Dates: 1983-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 20 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 20 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Family leave (re maternity and parental leave)
      Dates: 1988-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 20 / 5-7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Family planning
      Dates: 1985-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 20 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Fatherhood (re changing parenting roles for fathers)
      Dates: 1981-1982
      Container: Box/Folder 20 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Fundraising (includes celebrations for International Women's Day, mailings strategies, projects, readings, and phone solicitation scripts)
      Dates: 1985-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 20 / 10-16
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Gender equity: education
      Dates: 1985-1986
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Gender equity: government employment (see "Candidates training" for related materials)
      Dates: 1981-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Gender equity: sports education
      Dates: 1988-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Gender neutral language
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Health care reform (Montana and national)
      Dates: 1988-1994
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 5-6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Health care reform: abortion services
      Dates: 1992-1994
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Health care reform: mammography
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Health care reform: maternity services
      Dates: 1988-1994
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Human rights (includes women, persons of color, homosexuals)
      Dates: 1989-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Lobbying
      Dates: 1981-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Media contacts (re Montana newspapers, reports, television stations, etc.)
      Dates: 1985, 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Midwifery
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Montana Alliance for Progressive Policy
      Dates: 1986-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 14
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Montana Alliance for Progressive Policy: Women's Project
      Dates: 1986-1987
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 15
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Montana Children's Alliance: Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Program (See also Childcare: Montana Children's Alliance)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 16
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Montana Low Income Coalition
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 17
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Montana Tax Reform Coalition
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box/Folder 21 / 18
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Native Americans: education in Montana
      Dates: 1991-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 22 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Native Americans: rights
      Dates: 1980, 1988
      Container: Box/Folder 22 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Northern Rockies Action Group (NRAG): Women's Project proposal
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box/Folder 22 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Non-gender insurance: Montana (re discontinuing gender-based insurance rates)
      Dates: 1983-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 22 / 4-8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Non-gender insurance: national (includes Iowa, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania)
      Dates: 1983-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 22 / 9-12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Sales tax: Montana
      Dates: 1989, 1993
      Container: Box/Folder 22 / 13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Senior citizens (re rights and treatment of)
      Dates: 1986-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 22 / 14
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Sexual harassment (includes AAUW report on harassment in the schools)
      Dates: 1991-1993
      Container: Box/Folder 22 / 15
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Speech-giving
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 22 / 16
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Taxes (re state income tax)
      Dates: 1992
      Container: Box/Folder 22 / 17
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Veterans' preference: statistics
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 23 /
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Teen health care (includes mental health, pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs))
      Dates: 1988-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 23 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Town meetings (re meetings sponsored by Montana Women's Lobby across the state to discuss the upcoming legislative sessions)
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 23 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Veterans' preference: correspondence files (to and from leadership and membership regarding WLF fight to reinterpret "preference")
      Dates: 1983-1984
      Container: Box/Folder 23 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Veterans' preference: reports and opinions (from various political groups and state agencies re Crabtree decision and preference issues in general)
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 23 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Veterans' preference: Special Session Interim Study (49th Montana Legislative Assembly)
      Dates: 1983 December
      Container: Box/Folder 23 / 5-6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Veterans' preference: statistics
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 23 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Veterans' preference: town survey (includes questionnaires and results of surveys conducted at town meetings across the state by WLF)
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 24 / 1-2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Veterans' preference: women veterans (re effects of changing preference laws on women veterans and their families)
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 24 / 3-4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Veterans' preference: clippings (re national and state debate)
      Dates: 1983, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 24 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Violence against women
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 24 / 6-7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Welfare reform: AFDC (re Aid to Families with Dependent Children program benefits reduction plans)
      Dates: 1987-1993
      Container: Box/Folder 24 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Welfare reform: General Assistance (re Butte Community Union vs Dave Lewis Director of the Montana State Dept. of Social and Rehabilitative Services, a law suit regarding the impact of lost General Assistance monies in Montana counties)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Welfare reform: Governor's Human Services Delivery Task Force
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Welfare reform: Governor's proposal
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Welfare reform: J.O.B.S. Program (Job Opportunities and Basic Skills)
      Dates: 1989-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Welfare reform: Joint Interim Subcommittee on Welfare
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 5-6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Welfare reform: Legislative Council Report
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Welfare reform: Medicaid
      Dates: 1992
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Welfare reform: Montana Constitutional amendment (re Constitutional Referendum 18--changing language to "may" from "shall" provide welfare relief)
      Dates: 1987, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Welfare reform: Montana Welfare Reform Team
      Dates: 1993
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Welfare reform: New Horizons Program (re childcare for former AFDC parents in new jobs)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Welfare reform: poverty in Montana (statistical information and educational pamphlets)
      Dates: 1985, 1991, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Welfare reform: miscellaneous
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Women in Employment Advisory Council (scattered minutes and correspondence)
      Dates: 1987-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 14
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Women in Military Service Memorial (re placement of memorial statue in Washington, D.C.)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 15
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Women's Business Support Coordinator (re establishment of this office in Montana)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 16
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Women's Lobby Day (re lobbyist training and information events held during the legislature to promote public participation)
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 25 / 17
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Accreditation Standards Letters" (Pat Harper records)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Correspondence From Marty Onishuk" (concerning keynote speaker Dr. David Landswerk at the 1986 Montana High School Association Annual Meeting) (Pat Harper records)
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Educational Equity Board of Regents Testimony on Cuts to Women in Higher Education" (Pat Harper records)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Educational Equity Press Releases" (Pat Harper records)
      Dates: 1985-1986
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Educational Equity Rules - Testimony to Human Rights Commission" (Pat Harper records)
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Educational Equity: 1987 Legislative Testimony" (Pat Harper records)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Gender Equity in Sports (Pat Harper records)
      Dates: 1974, 1986, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Gender Equity - Vocaional Education Annual Report (Pat Harper records)
      Dates: 1992
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Human Rights Commission Testimony" (Pat Harper records)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Human Rights Commission Education Equity Rules" (Pat Harper records)
      Dates: February 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Marge's Curriculum" (Recognizing and Preventing Sexual Harrassment in School) (Pat Harper records)
      Dates: 1993-1994
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Montana Children's Alliance Agenda" (Pat Harper records)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Montana Women's Lobby Women's Celebration" (Pat Harper records)
      Dates: 1995
      Container: Box/Folder 29 / 13
      Location: Subject Files

  • Miscellany

    • Description: Business cards (WLF executive board members)
      Dates: 1984-1985
      Container: Box/Folder 26 / 1
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Calendar (re schedule for meetings with membership, public, and affiliated women's groups)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 26 / 2
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Certificate ("Heart of the Family" award presented to Nancy Collins by the Montana Association of Female Executives, the Montana Women's Lobby, and Planned Parenthood Affiliates of Montana)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 26 / 3
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Fund raising mailings (from other non-profit organizations requesting monetary support, primarily through membership)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 26 / 4
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Lists: Democratic women in Montana (re women registered in Montana as Democrats) (contains RESTRICTED information)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 26 / 5
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Lists: legislative committee assignments
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 26 / 6
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Lists: legislative districts
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 26 / 7
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Lists: legislators (divided alphabetically and by political affiliation; includes addresses)
      Dates: 1983, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 26 / 8
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Lists: lobbyists (registered with Office of Political Practices)
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 26 / 9
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Lists: N.O.W. (National Organization of Women, Montana membership; Belle Winestine Award Certificates) (OVERSIZE: see map case)
      Dates: 1986-1997
      Container: Box/Folder 26 / 10
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Lists: resources (re various related political and women's organizations; publications catalogs)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 26 / 11-12
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Lists: school contacts in Montana (includes MEA (Montana Educators Association) leadership, and Superintendents names, addresses, and phone numbers)
      Dates: 1982-1983, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 26 / 13
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Lists: volunteers
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 26 / 14
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Mailing list (unidentified)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 26 / 15
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Membership forms (re other organizations to join Montana Women's Lobby)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 26 / 16
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Membership lists (includes Montana Women's Lobby members, organizational members, renewal lists)
      Dates: 1984-1987, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 26 / 17-19
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Newsletters (re issues of concern to Montana Women's Lobby)
      Dates: 1984-1994
      Container: Box/Folder 27 / 1
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Pamphlets (re informational sheets about Montana Women's Lobby)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 27 / 2
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Questionnaires: individual members (re setting priorities for lobbying efforts) (completed)
      Dates: 1989, 1994
      Container: Box/Folder 27 / 3-5
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Questionnaires: organizational membership (re setting priorities for lobbying efforts) (completed)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 27 / 6-7
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Questionnaires: Montana Child Care Act (re questionnaire given to citizens who contacted legislators regarding this bill) (completed)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 27 / 8
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Questionnaires: MontCel Candidate Questionnaire (Montana Committee for an Effective Legislature questionnaire) (scattered; completed)
      Dates: 1993
      Container: Box/Folder 27 / 9
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Stationery (with Montana Women's Lobby masthead)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 27 / 10
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Thank-you letters to legislators (includes mailing list)
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 27 / 11
      Location: Miscellany

  • Clippings

    • Description: Abortion
      Dates: 1984-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 1
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Abortion: clinic bombings
      Dates: 1984-1985
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 2
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Affirmative Action
      Dates: 1983, 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 3
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: AIDS
      Dates: 1985-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 4
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Athletics and women
      Dates: 1984-1985
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 5
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Children (re abuse, childcare, education, healthcare, etc.)
      Dates: 1984-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 6
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Christian Right
      Dates: 1992, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 7
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Comparable worth
      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 8
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Family leave
      Dates: 1985-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 9
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Family planning
      Dates: 1984-1986
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 10
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Gender bias
      Dates: 1985-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 11
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Healthcare (re women's health)
      Dates: 1985-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 12
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Human rights (includes ethnic, religious, socio-economic, and sexual preference)
      Dates: 1984-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 13
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Legislative (re Montana Legislature and legislators)
      Dates: 1983-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 14
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Living wills (re right-to-die)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 15
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Martin Luther King Birthday Holiday (re fight to establish the holiday in Montana)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 16
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Minimum wage (re raising state minimum wage)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 17
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Montana women (re female leaders in Montana)
      Dates: 1983-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 18
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Non-gender insurance (re gender bias in insurance rates)
      Dates: 1985-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 19
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Prison (re establishment of Women's Correctional Facility; overcrowding in men's facility)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 20
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Rape/Violence Against Women
      Dates: 1985, 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 21
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Senior citizens
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 22
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Sexual harassment
      Dates: 1991-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 23
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Stalking
      Dates: 1991-1993
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 24
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: State employees
      Dates: 1984-1985, 1991
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 25
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Veterans' preference (re reform of hiring preference for veterans)
      Dates: 1983-1985
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 26-27
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Welfare (re reform of public assistance programs including AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependant Children), WICHE (Women, Infants and Children Health), General Assistance, etc.)
      Dates: 1985-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 28
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Miscellaneous (primarily regarding Montana Women's Lobby activities and projects)
      Dates: 1985-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 28 / 29
      Location: Clippings

Finding aid prepared by MHS Staff
1997

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