Topics:
OU as a female-friendly campus in the 1960s-1970s; OU policies against gender discrimination; accommodation of women students’ needs; the women’s rights movement on campus.
Selected sources:
Vertical File:
- Folder “Equal opportunity policy”: From sex to gender. Report on discrimination against sexual orientation (part of move to include sexual orientation in policy).
- Folder Faculty: Article " 7 women are stars on OU faculty,” 1960.
- Folder "Gender and sexuality center." 1974, formation of student group “Gay Liberation.”
- Folder "Women's Center." Opened in fall 1975. Includes reports for late 1970s and "a general schema of the curriculum, 1970 - the female situation".
- Folder "Women's Center Advisory Board." Includes some examples of activities.
- Folder "Women's Center - old ," includes newsletter for June 1975 and other dates. Minutes of staff meeting 1975. Topics for women's forum, 1973. A Commission on the Status of Women found under-representation on campus. Series of posters announcing events. History of the women's Center.
- Folder "Women faculty, status of." Report on the status of faculty women at OU, 1978. Found under-representation at the full professor level. Comparison with 1970 report.
- Folder "Women's rights ad hoc committee," 1970. Student demands for sexual equality.
- Folder "Women's liberation." A child day care center at OU in 1970.
- Folder "Women's studies." Documents on the creation of the program, 1978. Also on the Women's Center.
- Box 5, Folder “Continuum Center for Women.” Established 1965 "to assist women in finding a more creative and satisfying place in the contemporary home and community." (Continuing Ed). Report on 2nd conference for women.
O’Dowd Papers (Provost):
- Box 18, Folder “Women’s Rights Committee”
- Box 6, Folder "MSUO Reports." Newspaper clippings from the 1960s highlighting female students at OU, especially returning moms.
- Women's Regulations - Housing handbook 1964-65
The Continuum Center
- Continuing education for women
University newsletters
OU student newspapers
