wa00013. Women, Politics, and the Law
Found in 112 Collections and/or Records:
Democratic Activist Women's Network, District 1 records
Organization created to recruit, educate, and elect Democratic women to public office in Iowa.
Minnette Doderer papers
Vergene Donovan papers
Spencer, Iowa, resident active in the Iowa Federation of Republican women.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
ERA Iowa 1992 records
Grassroots campaign initiated in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1991 to promote the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Iowa constitution in the 1992 election.
Black Hawk County Women's Political Caucus records
Organized in 1973, members supported a number of feminist initiatives including economic equalty and the ERA.
Betty Jean Furgerson papers
Teacher, social worker, human rights commission director, and university regent from Waterloo.
Ruth Hamilton papers
Teacher and world traveler who served in the New Hampshire legislature.
Beverly A. Hannon papers
Two-term Iowa state senator. Hannon chaired the Human Resources Committee and was instrumental in founding the Iowa Women's Foundation in Iowa City.
Patricia Harper papers
Iowa State Representative and Senator who served in the legislature from 1987 to 2002.
Emma Harvat papers
First woman mayor of Iowa City, serving from 1922 to 1925.
Iowa Women Against the Equal Rights Amendment records
Grassroots organization opposed to Iowa's ratification of the ERA to the Iowa and United States constitutions.
Iowa Commission on the Status of Women records
Legislative commission designed to study, protect, and advocate for the women of Iowa.
Iowa Women's Equality Campaign records
The organization formed in 1992 to work for passage of the state ERA in Iowa.
Ruth Scharnau papers
Teacher and community activist who was a founding member of the Dubuque National Organization for Women.
Louise Goldman papers
Public servant, feminist activist, and poet from Davenport, Iowa.
Iowa ERA Coalition records
Organization to promote passage of an Equal Rights Amendment to the Iowa and United States constitutions.
Kim Landhuis papers
Native of Vietnam who became a teacher, school board member, and 1994 candidate for the Iowa senate.
Sonja Larsen papers
Republican representative in the Iowa legislature who ran for mayor of Ottumwa in 1981.
Ruth Laughlin papers
League of Women Voters, Metropolitan Des Moines records
This non-partisan group studied and acted upon the many local issues including the following: the council-manager form of city government, home rule for local and county government, reapportionment of legislative districts of the Iowa General Assembly, desegregation and integration of Des Moines public schools, and the need for affordable housing in the community.