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The Boundaries of Women’s Rights: Activism
and Aspirations in the Society of Women
Engineers
Lauren Kata, MA
ICWES 15
July 20, 2011
1950 - SWE Founding
Professional Opportunities for Women Engineers,
post-WWII• Limited opportunities, despite employment
increase in WWII• Only a handful of women in engineering
programs• Technical Societies denied full membership
to women
• Conservative Board of Directors• Members conflict over increase in activism• Tax Status for non-profit organizations
Collective Action1950s, 60s
1973 New Leaders Make
Change• Formation of “Federation of Professional
Women”• Affiliation with National Society of Professional
Engineers• Endorsement of the ERA
A Moderate Feminist Organization
Gradual Retreat
• SWE members in non-ratified states• Mainstream women’s movement anti-
defense agenda• Indictments on technology
A Legacy Outside the Mainstream Women’s Movement
Society of Women Engineers Archives, Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University - Images and References Secondary Sources Bledstein, Burton. The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and theDevelopment of Higher Education in America. New York: Norton, 1976. Hartmann, Susan. The Other Feminists: Activists in the Liberal Establishment. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998.
Oldenziel, Ruth. “Multiple-Entry Visas: Gender and Engineering in the US, 1870-1945.” CrossingBoundaries, Building Bridges: Comparing the History of Women Engineers,1870s-1990s. Edited by Annie Canel, Ruth Oldenziel, and Karin Zachmann, 11-50. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic ; Abingdon : Marston, 2000. Rossiter, Margaret. Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940. Vol. 1 of Women Scientists in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. ---. Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1945-1970. Vol. 2 of Women Scientists in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Scott, Anne Firor. Natural Allies: Women’s Associations in American History. University of Illinois Press, 1991.
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