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IowaCASA's services included securing funding for Iowa's sexual assault centers, resource development, public education initiatives on child sexual abuse, anti-pornography work, and self-defense training. After 1997 IowaCasa expanded to include work on public policy.

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Local chapter of the Iowa Nurses Association.

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An organization to promote the upward mobility of women in educational management.

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Women's organization to fund and assist programs that create opportunities for women and girls in Iowa.

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Women's club sponsered by the Farm Bureau.

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Rural women participated in a great number and variety of clubs.  This collection has short histories of a variety of clubs formed in Iowa in the first part of the 20th century.

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One folder, shelved in SCVF.

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Program on feminism discussed by this book club in Mount Vernon, Iowa.

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Nondenominational and nonpartisan organization bringing Iowa women's clubs together.

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Longstanding member of Fairfield, Iowa clubs including the Fancy Work Circle and the Good Cheer Society.

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The Iowa League for Nursing's efforts have included active participation in community planning and action for health care, advocating changes such as home health care. The organization made efforts to assure the continuing supply of nurses by providing them with the educational opportunities to reach their maximum career potential, ability to move into management and leadership positions, and promoting a greater public appreciation of nursing as a profession.

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Iowa chapter of the national organization.

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Established by the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women in 1975 to recognize the contributions of Iowa women.

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Organized in Iowa City to promote the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment to the constitution of the state of Iowa.

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"New Strategies, Old Obstacles in the Fight for Equality: An Analysis of the 1992 Iowa ERA Referendum Campaign," is shelved in the Iowa Women's Archives printed works collection (fHQ.1236.5.U6 F45 1993).

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Women's auxiliary of the Iowa Pork Producer's Association, founded in 1964. Merged with the men's organization in 1992.

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Commemorated the efforts of pioneer suffragists and the enfranchisement of women.

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Iowa affiliate of Networking Together, Inc., an organization for women of color.

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Farm women's club organized in 1926.

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During the 1980s and 1990s, the LWV of Muscatine conducted a number of studies on Muscatine county issues, including the ambulance 911 system, law enforcement, county courthouse space needs, alternative forms of county government, housing, education, land use, hazardous waste, local option tax, the U.S. Highway 61 Bypass, and the Muscatine fire station.

Scope and Contents The League of Women Voters of Sioux City records date from 1978 to 1993 and measure 2.5 linear inches. The bulk of the collection consists of newspaper clippings from the Sioux City Journal and the Des Moines Register chronicling local debates in the late 1970s about Sioux City's urban renewal and city government structure. Clippings on how other Iowa cities were handling these issues in their communities are included. The home rule charter folder includes the proposal submitted by the Sioux City Charter Commission to the mayor and city council, which called for re-structuring the city's government; among other things, the new charter would have given more power to the mayor. The proposed charter was hotly debated for several months and defeated in a narrow vote; the League opposed the charter. The urban renewal newspaper clippings describe conflicts over how to maintain a vital business sector, and an investigation into charges that a developer had misused...

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The league has been involved in various projects and studies throughout its history, reflecting changing political issues while maintaining a core concern for the community of Mount Vernon.