International Women's Year (1975), 1973-1976

 
Component identifier:
Series 14
Content Summary:

Reid's appointment in 1973 as Special Adviser on Women's Affairs to the Australian Prime Minister culminated in her coordination of Australia's contribution to the commemoration of International Women's Year, 1975. The papers in this series document her roles as Convenor of the Australian National Advisory Committee for International Women's Year and Leader of the Australian Delegation to, and Vice-Chairman of, the Preparatory United Nations Consultative Committee, New York March 1975. Of prime significance was her role as Leader of the Australian delegation to the World Conference for International Women's Year in Mexico, June 1975.

File 73 contains a complete set of Xilonen, the daily newspaper of the International Women's Year Tribune, 19 June - 2 July 1975.

This large series has been broken into eight broad groups which inevitably overlap: Files 1-23: Committees; Files 24-31: Planning - general; Files 32-40: Grants, submissions, projects; Files 41-46: Reports; Files 47-66: Files on people and issues; Files 67-71a: Publicity, press releases, speeches; Files 72-99: World Conference of the International Women's Year, Mexico City, 19 June to 2 July, 1975, and Mexico Tribune; Files 100-121: Other conferences.

Immediate source of acquisition:
The papers of Elizabeth Reid were donated to the Library under the Cultural Gifts Program in 2002.

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Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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