The Women's Equity Action League records (1972-1977) measure 5 linear inches and are organized in five series: Iowa; Law; National; Sister chapters; and Women's media.

The Iowa series (1972-1976) contains annual meeting minutes, correspondence to and from the state president's office, a membership list for 1975, one copy of The WEAL Scoop (the newsletter of WEAL's Iowa Division), and state treasurer's papers from 1973-1976. This series also contains the manual for state presidents (1975-1976), which provides a comprehensive overview of the organization and its history.

The Law series (1973-1975) offers a layperson's overview of the issues considered critical by WEAL members. Topics include "How to File a Patent," principles of employment discrimination and sexual discrimination law, and ac opy of the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

The National series (1972-1977) contains national board meeting agendas and minutes for select meetings. It also includes advice from the national organization to its state and local affiliates about how to increase membership, develop chapters, and raise funds. Finally, the series contains the testimony of Arvonne Skelton Fraser, a WEAL activist and the daughter of farmers, who spoke on the subject of estate taxation before the national House Ways and Means Committee in 1976.

The Sister Chapters series (1975, 1976) contains one document each from Iowa WEAL's sister chapters in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. The North Carolina document is a program from a pro-ERA rally in 1976. The Pennsylvania document is a state chapter newsletter from 1975.

Finally, the Women's Media series (1972-1975) contains a miscellany of items related to the coverage of women's issues in contemporary media. Included are small collections of feminist publications Women Today and The Spokeswoman; also included are the McGraw-Hill guidelines for non-sexist writing. A mid-1970s flyer outlining a month of "women's programming" on Iowa public television establishes the arid intellectual context within which audacious feminist media projects were launched.