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1971-09-29 Daily Iowan Article: 'Women to discuss job bias'
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DAILY IOWAN, SEPT 29, 1971 [photo] WANT TO START SOMETHING SISTER? Women's Center WOMEN'S ROOM The University of Iowa's liberated women will open the doors tonight and begin the first in a series of workshops designed to orientate them to their movement. - Daily Iowan Photo Women to discuss job bias Six days of workshops for women, marking the opening of he new Women's Center at 3 East Market, begin at 7:30 p.m. tonight with discussions of "Economic Class in the Women's Movement" and the "H.E.W. Movement," a look at discrimination against University of Iowa-employed women. The two workshops - both to be held in the Center - will run simultaneously. Free child care will be available for women wishing to attend. The workshops were conceived and coordinated b groups of women who have been holding periodic open meetings. Thursday's workshops, which will also run simultaneously beginning at 7:30 p.m., are called "Women's Studies" (an attempt to discover "the relationship that academic studies, the learning of skills and informal discussion groups can have in the education of women," according to a leaflet distributed by Center workers), and "Sound selling for Women," which is to include a discussion of consciousness-raising groups. "Abortion and Birth Control" and a workshop for homosexual women, "Lesbian Consciousness,' will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Center. At 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning, a workshop on the socialization of children and the merits of daycare and one on guerrilla theatre will take place. Also Saturday, at 2 p.m. in the Main Lounge of Wesley House, 120 N. Dubuque, will be a multimedia presentation and a general session for exchange of ideas from workshops. An open meeting to discuss the structural organization of the Women's Center will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Wesley House Lounge. The workshops and meetings are open to all interested women.
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DAILY IOWAN, SEPT 29, 1971 [photo] WANT TO START SOMETHING SISTER? Women's Center WOMEN'S ROOM The University of Iowa's liberated women will open the doors tonight and begin the first in a series of workshops designed to orientate them to their movement. - Daily Iowan Photo Women to discuss job bias Six days of workshops for women, marking the opening of he new Women's Center at 3 East Market, begin at 7:30 p.m. tonight with discussions of "Economic Class in the Women's Movement" and the "H.E.W. Movement," a look at discrimination against University of Iowa-employed women. The two workshops - both to be held in the Center - will run simultaneously. Free child care will be available for women wishing to attend. The workshops were conceived and coordinated b groups of women who have been holding periodic open meetings. Thursday's workshops, which will also run simultaneously beginning at 7:30 p.m., are called "Women's Studies" (an attempt to discover "the relationship that academic studies, the learning of skills and informal discussion groups can have in the education of women," according to a leaflet distributed by Center workers), and "Sound selling for Women," which is to include a discussion of consciousness-raising groups. "Abortion and Birth Control" and a workshop for homosexual women, "Lesbian Consciousness,' will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Center. At 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning, a workshop on the socialization of children and the merits of daycare and one on guerrilla theatre will take place. Also Saturday, at 2 p.m. in the Main Lounge of Wesley House, 120 N. Dubuque, will be a multimedia presentation and a general session for exchange of ideas from workshops. An open meeting to discuss the structural organization of the Women's Center will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Wesley House Lounge. The workshops and meetings are open to all interested women.
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