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Title: UAW Women’s Department: Dorothy Haener Type : Records Dates: 1932-1982 (Predominantly 1960-82) Size : 37 linear feet, 37 storage boxes ID #: 848-uaw OCLC: ©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs |
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Scope & Contents
The UAW Women’s Department was established by the UAW’s International Executive Board in 1955 in order to address the problems faced by women workers and to involve women in the administration of the UAW. Dorothy Haener was appointed to the Women’s Department as its International Representative in 1961 and kept that position until her retirement in 1982. In keeping with the mission of the Women’s Department, Haener encouraged women to be active in the union.
In addition to her involvement in the Women’s Department, Haener participated in a number of political, civic, and church organizations to promote women’s rights and human rights. She served as Commissioner of the International Women’s Year, was a founding member of NOW and the National Women’s Political Caucus, co-chair of the Michigan Task Force on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace and the Michigan ERAmerica Committee, and a tireless advocate for employment equity, reproductive choice, children, the aged, and the poor on countless other task forces and committees.
The papers of the UAW Women’s Department: Dorothy Haener Collection consist of correspondence, meeting material, conference material, clippings, publications, and reports.
A transcript of an oral interview with Dorothy Haener may be
found in the 20th Century Trade Union Woman series of oral histories on deposit
at the Reuther Library.
Abortion International
Women’s Year
Aging Legal rights for working women
Child care National Organization for Women
Civil Rights National Women’s Conference
Education Poverty
Equal Pay Sexual harassment
Equal Rights Amendment Status of Women
Health UN Decade For Women
Bluestone, Irving King,
Jean
Davis, Caroline Komar, Odessa
Friedan, Betty Madar, Olga
Griffiths, Martha Mazey, Emil
Hatcher, Lillian Reuther, Walter P.
Jeffry, Mildred Woodcock, Leonard
Transferred
A number of photographs, ribbons, certificates, buttons, and posters have been placed in the Archives Audiovisual Collection, and several books, serials, and convention publications are available in the Archives Library.