Women in Public Service. Volume II. Women's Organizations in the Public Service: Toward Agenda Setting

摘要

The volume is the second of a three-volume report containing the results of research conducted in 1978-79 by the Center for the American Woman and Politics (CAWP) under a grant from the Office of Policy Development and Research of HUD. The volume reports on CAWP's study of women's groups in politics and government. It identifies various organizations of women public officials across the country, examines their goals and agendas, and describes the establishment of these organizations, their structures, their relationship to parent organizations, their reasons for forming, and their program activities. Finally, the report outlines the continuing struggle as women see it and suggests some new ways to solve old problems. Footnotes are provided. Two appendices supplement the main text. The first examines the photographs in one organizations's brochure and shows how a discriminatory message seeps into publications of institutions, even those strongly oriented toward equality. The second lists the women's organizations and the persons to contact for further information.