International Women’s Year, 1975

  • National women’s conference, Houston, 1977

    The United Nations proclaimed 1975 the International Women’s Year, and sponsored an international conference held in Mexico City. After success and continued action taken by participating countries, the United Nations extended the observance to the International Women’s Decade, spanning 1976-1982, with another international conference planned for 1980. In 1977, as a continuation of action in…

  • Anatomy of a manifesto

    During the Journalist Encounter, which preceded the United Nations International Women’s Year conference, feminist journalists – along with conference delegates who had already arrived – got an early sampling of the political divisions that would prove so disruptive during the two-week conference in Mexico City. They also got an early start on combating such divisive…

  • Betty Friedan vs. the Third World.

    Betty Friedan, co-founder of the National Organization of Women and author of The Feminine Mystique, addresses questions from Third World women of the press on such issues as the family’s future, how American women handle family as well as a career, and how Third World women’s problems contrast with those of women from more developed…

  • Women as internationalists : sharing the future.

    A discussion of women as internationalists and the 1975 United Nations conference in Mexico City, part of a conference on Sharing the Future, held at the New School for Social Research and sponsored by the Human Relations Work Study Center. The panel questions whether the feminist movement is truly international and whether the U.N. conference…

  • Ruth Gage-Colby interviewed by Dorothy Eletz

    Dorothy Eletz attended the U.N. International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City [June 19-July 2, 1975], and this recording is an interview she conducted with Ruth Gage-Colby (1899-1984), a leader in the peace, disarmament, and human rights movements, at the conference on July 2. They discuss the International Women’s Conference and women’s rights.

  • Will the real U.S. delegation please stand up? / produced by Barbara Cady.

    Speeches and actuality about the legitimacy of the representatives from the United States at the conference.