Guide to the Office for Women's Rights Subject Files 1971-1996

Overview of the Collection

	Repository Name:		City of Seattle Seattle Municipal Archives PO Box 94728 600 Fourth Avenue, Floor 3 Seattle, WA 98124-4728 Phone: 206/233-7807 Email: archives@seattle.gov http://www.seattle.gov/cityarchives
	Collection Number:		8401-01
	Creator:		Seattle (Wash.). Office of Women's Rights
	Title:		Office for Women's Rights Subject Files
	Dates:		1971-1996 (inclusive)
	Quantity:		9.2 cubic feet 23 boxes
	Languages:		Collection materials are in English
	Summary:		Records relating to the Office's projects and issues of concern.

Historical Note

By the end of 1973, twenty-five percent of the City's employees were women, few of whom worked in management, protective services, and the trades. Through a 1972 executive order, Seattle's Mayor instituted a voluntary affirmative action plan for increasing the number of women and minorities in City employment. In response to the executive order, the Office of Women's Rights, the Human Rights Department, and City departments set overall City affirmative action goals. In 1978, the Mayor required that departments establish yearly departmental goals, by job category, for hiring women and minorities through an Affirmative Action Plan. The Office of Women's Rights was responsible for ensuring the success of the affirmative action program with respect to women; the Office worked with the Department of Human Resources, which was responsible for the disabled and elderly, and with the Human Rights Department, which was responsible of minorities. The Personnel Department assisted with recruitment, training, employee relations, and other issues relating to affirmative action.

Content Description

Correspondence, memoranda, briefings, surveys, reports, research materials and legislation relating to OWR projects as well as issues of concern to OWR. Topics include non-traditional careers for women (including firefighting and blue-collar trades), women and minority business enterprises (WMBE), affirmative action, sex discrimination and issues involving pregnant employees (limited duty, disability). Other topics include child care, domestic violence, chemical and alcohol dependency, and juvenile prostitution. Also addressed are issues of concern to the lesbian and gay community, particularly domestic partnerships, discrimination and bias/hate crimes. OWR's participation in fairs and celebrations is also documented, including Women in the Trades Fair, Take Our Daughters to Work Day and the 75th anniversary of Women's Suffrage.

Administrative Information

Separated Materials

Publications were pulled from the collection and are cataloged separately in the Published Documents Index.

Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Access

Records are open to the public.

Preferred Citation

[Item and date], Office for Women's Rights Subject Files, Record Series 8401-01. Box [number], Folder [number]. Seattle Municipal Archives.

Subjects

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Seattle (Wash.). Office of Women's Rights

Seattle (Wash.)

Affirmative action programs--Washington (State)--Seattle

Discrimination in employment--Washington (State)--Seattle

Domestic partner benefits --Washington (State)--Seattle

Family violence--Prevention--Washington (State)--Seattle

Gays --Washington (State)--Seattle

Women--Employment--Washington (State)--Seattle

Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--Washington (State)--Seattle

Women's rights--Washington (State)--Seattle

Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

8401-01: Office for Women's Rights Subject Files, 1971-1996

Container(s)

Description

Dates

box/folder
1/1

75th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage Celebration/Parade

1995

1/2

A Primer on the Federal Budget

1983

1/3

Ad Hoc Minority / Non-Minority Contractors Committee

1980

1/4

Affirmative Action

1983-1991

1/5

Affirmative Action - Kiewit-Grace, West Seattle Bridge Project

1983

1/6

Affirmative Action - Status of Women in City Employment

1971

1/7

Affirmative Action Progress Reports

1991-1995

1/8

Affirmative Action Rules Summary

1982

1/9

Affirmative Action Task Force

1993

1/10

Affirmative Action Task Force

1996

1/11

Affirmative Action/Diversity Annual Workplan/Goals, Worksheets

1992-1993

1/12

Affirmative Action/Diversity Annual Workplan/Goals,Worksheets

1994-1996

2/1

Affirmative Action/Valuing and Managing Diversity Department Plan

1992

2/2

AIDS Policy (city)

1985-1986

2/3

AIDS Resolution, OWR testimony and information

1983-1985

2/4

AIDS Resolution, policy, training

1986-1989

2/5

Annual Report Information [includes photos]

1991-1994

2/6

Anti-Harassment Policy Workgroup [Part I]

1993-1994

2/7

Anti-Harassment Policy Workgroup [Part II]

1993-1994

2/8

Anti-Homophobia Training, materials and consultants

1989-1993

2/9

Appointment of Donna Moore as OWR Director

1981

2/10

Appointment of Linda Taylor, commendations etc.

1985-1986

2/11

Apprenticeship Program for Women

1978

2/12

Article: "The Seattle Women's Rights Program" by B. Bader

1974

2/13

Assessment Forms

1980

2/14

Battered Women's Shelter

1975-1976

2/15

Battered Women's Shelter, New Beginnings

1978-1979

3/1

Bias Crime Report: Media Strategy. Press Release

1995

3/2

Briefing Materials for Meeting with Mayor

1979

3/3

Budget: Survey of 1995-1996 Budget Process

1994

3/4

Chemical Sprays Ordinance - OWR response

1981-1982

3/5

Chicken Soup Brigade Event, 8/18/1991

1991

3/6

Child Care Office Proposal

1972

3/7

Classification and Job Rating Project - Comments and Responses

1988

3/8

Classification and Job Rating Project - Correspondence

1988

3/9

Classification and Job Rating Project - Correspondence

1987

3/10

Classification and Job Rating Project - Correspondence

1986-1987

3/11

Classification and Job Rating Project - OWR Clerical

1988

3/12

Classification and Job Rating Project - OWR Professional

1988

3/13

Coalition Against Bigotry and Bias Affirmative Action Subcommittee

1994-1995

3/14

Community Development Black Grants / HSP Strategies

1991-1992

3/15

Community Forum, 3/16/1989, OWR Long Range Plan

1989

3/16

Community Property Proposed 1972 Legislation

1971

4/1

Comparable Worth Legislation

1983-1986

4/2

Comparable Worth Steering Committee - Final Report, Labor/Management Committee Materials

1984-1985

4/3

Comparable Worth Steering Committee #1

1983-1987

4/4

Comparable Worth Steering Committee #2

1984-1985

4/5

Comparable Worth: A Brief Overview, SB 3248

1983

4/6

Comparable Worth: OWR workshop flyer

1980

4/7

Complaints Filed with OWR, Filing Procedures

1977

4/8

Cultural Diversity Training Phase Two

1992

4/9

Custer's Revenge Video

1982-1983

4/10

Daycare Issues

1981-1984

4/11

Daycare Needs in Seattle

1985-1989

4/12

Dependent Care Needs Survey

1994-1995

4/13

Dependent Care Needs Survey Data

1994

4/14

Dependent Care Needs Survey Poster

1994

4/15

Dependent Care Needs Survey preparation and completed materials

1993-1995

4/16

Dependent Care Needs Survey Video

1994

5/1

Disabilities Handbook

1991

5/2

Displaced Homemakers Program

1978-1979

5/3

Domestic Family Violence Taskforce

1983-1984

5/4

Domestic Partners Benefits: Employee Information Sheets, Yearly reports, Departmental Procedures

1990-1995

5/5

Domestic Partnership - Chart of General Background on Implementation of Benefits

5/6

Domestic Partnership - City Agency Responses

1990-1991

5/7

Domestic Partnership - News coverage

1989-1990

5/8

Domestic Partnership Benefits Resource Manual, drafts

1995

5/9

Domestic Partnership Policies Survey - grant information, requests

1993

5/10

Domestic Partnership Policies Survey - participants, correspondence

1994

5/11

Domestic Partnership Policies Survey Responses [Folder 1 of 4]

1994

5/12

Domestic Partnership Policies Survey Responses [Folder 2 of 4]

1994

5/13

Domestic Partnership Policies Survey Responses [Folder 3 of 4]

1994

5/14

Domestic Partnership Policies Survey Responses [Folder 4 of 4]

1994

6/1

Domestic Partnership Policy - testimonies of OWR

1989

6/2

Domestic Partnership Registration: Resource Manual, Poster

1993-1995

6/3

Domestic Partnership, Family Leave: Seattle legislative history and implemetation [Part 1 of 3]

1983-1991

6/4

Domestic Partnership, Family Leave: Seattle legislative history and implemetation [Part 2 of 3]

1983-1991

6/5

Domestic Partnership, Family Leave: Seattle legislative history and implemetation [Part 3 of 3]

1983-1991

6/6

Domestic Violence and Chemically Dependent Woman; Final Briefing Report

1992

6/7

Domestic Violence and Chemically Dependent Woman; Meeting Notes

1992

6/8

Domestic Violence and Chemically Dependent Woman; Notes and References

1992

6/9

Domestic Violence Coalition

1985-1986

6/10

Domestic Violence Legislation; SB 4541, Amends to criminal code

1984

6/11

Domestic Violence Protection Act

1984-1985

6/12

Domestic Violence Task Force

1992-1993

7/1

EEO Annual Goal Setting

1987-1995

7/2

EEO Contract Provisions Ordinance, MOU between HRD and OWR re enforcement

1978

7/3

EEO Officer Survey and Recommendations

1993-1994

7/4

EEO Officers

1991-1992

7/5

Enabling Ordinance, Office of Women's Rights (drafts)

1972-1980

7/6

Entrepreneurial Training Program - Central District

1990

7/7

Equal Rights Amendment, Boycott

1978-1979

7/8

Family and Medical Leave Legislation

1984-1988

7/9

Family Leave Coalition

1987

7/10

Family Leave Ordinance (C.B. 107342) & Other Materials

1988

7/11

Family Planning - Title X, gag rule

1991

7/12

Family Support Team

1991

7/13

Fire Fighting (Women) - correspondence, reference material, meeting notes

1975-1980

7/14

Fire Fighting (Women) - reproductive hazards in the workplace, draft

7/15

Fire Fighting (Women)

1982-1983

8/1

Garbage Workers Outreach

1984-1985

8/2

Gay & Lesbian Youth Commission

1991

8/3

Gender Equity - Fire Department Correspondence

1988-1991

8/4

Hate Crime Brochure Translation Project

1992

8/5

Hate Crimes Awareness Campaign - news coverage

1992

8/6

Hate Crimes Brochure

1992

8/7

Hate Crimes Media Campaign [Part I]

1991-1992

8/8

Hate Crimes Media Campaign [Part II]

1991-1992

8/9

History of Office of Women's Rights

1972-1979

8/10

Human Relations Training - sexual harassment, discrimination

1983

8/11

Human Rights Department - Draft of Rules, Chapter 103, WMBE

1985

8/12

Human Services Delivery, Needs Assessment Survey Issue Paper

1982

8/13

Information and Referral Procedures and Protocols

1993

8/14

Initiative 13 - Fair Employment and Open Housing Ordinance

1977-1978

9/1

International Women's Conference

1995

9/2

International Women's Day

1992

9/3

International Women's Day

1991

9/4

International Women's Day Photos

1991-1992

9/5

International Women's Day, 1993 - planning, award nominations, correspondence

1993

9/6

International Women's Day, 1993 - registration forms

1993

9/7

International Women's Day, 1994

1994

9/8

International Women's Day, 1995

1995

9/9

International Women's Day, 1996

1996

9/10

Inventory of Services for Women in City Government, questionnaire

1980-1981

9/11

Job Training Partnership Act: Testimony by Donna Stringer

1984

9/12

Juvenile Prostitution - "Choices", a docudrama

1985-1987

9/13

Juvenile Prostitution - Dear John Campaign (one Photo Enclosed)

1985-1987

9/14

Juvenile Prostitution, Dear John Civic Action Committee

1985-1986

10/1

Know Your Employee Rights Brochure

10/2

Legislative Testimonies

1982-1986

10/3

Lesbian and Gay Youth Employment Project

1992-1993

10/4

Limited Duty Policy for Pregnant Employees

1987

10/5

Limited Duty Policy for Pregnant Employees, Sunset Clause

1990

10/6

List of Research Papers/Materials Produced by OWR, 1972-1991

1991

10/7

Long Range Planning Project and consultant information

1988

10/8

Malicious Harassment bill, ESSB 3012, SSB 5142

1984-1987

10/9

Maternity Care Services - Seattle, King County

1984-1985

10/10

Maternity Care Services for Low Income Women, Issue Paper

1985

10/11

Maternity Leave re Seattle Fire Department Relief Association

1984-1985

10/12

Mayor's Cabinet Retreat, resulting workplan, OWR's role on Task Force on Street People and Homeless

1985

11/1