Guide to the Papers of Elizabeth Reid
MS 9262
National Library of Australia
| Date completed: | July 2005 |
| Last updated: | April 2006 |
Table of Contents
Collection Summary
Introduction
Scope and Content
Arrangement
Access
Copying and Publishing
Preferred Citation
Provenance
Related Material
Biographical Chronology
Membership of Boards and Societies
Biographical Note
Series List and Descriptions
Series 1 Correspondence, 1973-1980
Series 2 Invitations and other items, 1973-1975
Series 3 Notebooks
Series 4 Personal documents, 1973-1977
Series 5 Australian National University, 1973-1975
Series 6 Literature on the Women's Movement, 1972-1974
Series 7 Australian Union of Students; National Union of Australian University Students, 1969-1975
Series 8 Women and development, 1973-1980
Series 9 United Nations - General, 1972-1980
Series 10 National Commission on Social Welfare, 1973
Series 11 World Population Conference, 1974
Series 12 Childcare and Early Childhood Education, 1972-1975
Series 13 Women's Affairs, 1973-1979
Series 14 International Women's Year (1975), 1973-1976
Series 15 World Conference of the UN Decade for Women, 1979-1980
Series 16 Subject files, 1968-1980
Series 17 Miscellaneous
Series 18 Publications, 1963-1981
Container List
Collection Summary
| Creator: | Reid, Elizabeth, 1942- |
| Title: | Papers of Elizabeth Reid |
| Date Range: | 1963-1981 |
| Collection Number: | MS 9262 |
| Extent: | 15.12m (108 boxes) |
| Repository: | National Library of Australia |
Introduction
Scope and Content
The bulk of the papers document Reid's period as Special Advisor on Women's Affairs and activities associated with International Women's Year (1975). They include correspondence, diaries, notebooks, office files, academic and conference papers, articles, press releases, press cuttings and publications.
Arrangement
The bulk of Reid's papers was in files when received. Arrangement into series has been imposed by the Library, with original file titles recorded where possible.
Provenance
The papers of Elizabeth Reid were donated to the Library under the Cultural Gifts Program in 2002.
Copying and Publishing
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Related Material
A biographical clippings file on Elizabeth Reid is available through the Petherick Reading Room.
The Library also holds a number of Elizabeth Reid's published works.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Elizabeth Reid, National Library of Australia, MS 9262, [series and/or folder number]'.
Biographical Chronology
| Date | Event |
| 3 July 1942 | Elizabeth Anne Reid born in Taree, NSW |
| 1960-1961 | Statistics Cadet and Program Officer, Bureau of Census and Statistics, Canberra |
| 1964-1966 | Computer programmer and subsequently Training Officer for Australia and the Pacific, Control Data Australia, Canberra |
| 1965 | Awarded B,A. (Hons), 1st Class, ANU |
| 1966 | Awarded Commonwealth Travelling Scholarship |
| 1970 | Awarded B. Phil. in Philosophy, Somerville College, Oxford Thesis: 'Predication, composition and identity' |
| 1970-1973 | Senior Tutor, Department of Philosophy, ANU |
| 1972 | Campaign manager, for Independent candidate Pat Eatock, House of Representatives |
| 1972-73 | Lecturer, Adult Education Course, 'Women in Society', ANU |
| April 1973-December 1975 | Adviser to the Prime Minister of Australia on women's affairs |
| Australian Representative to the U. N. Forum on the Role of Women in Population and Development, New York, February 1974 | |
| Convenor of the Australian National Advisory Committee for International Women's Year | |
| Leader of the Australian Delegation to, and Vice-Chairman of, the Preparatory United Nations Consultative Committee, New York, March 1975 | |
| Leader of the Australian delegation to the World Conference for International Women's Year, Mexico, June 1975 | |
| March 1974-March 1976 | Member of the Council of the Australian National University, Canberra |
| September-December 1976 | Fellow, Institute of Politics, J. F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
| December 1975-February 1977 | Adviser to Princess Ashraf Paylavi of Iran on development planning and women, in particular on United Nations initiatives in this area |
| February 1977-1979 | Founding Director and Project Manager, UN Asian and Pacific Centre for Women and Development, Tehran, Iran |
| 1979-1980 | Principal Officer, Secretariat for the 1980 UN World Conference of the Decade for Women (New York) |
| 1981-1983 | Consultant in development assistance, USAID and Peace Corps (Zaire), Peace Corps (Burundi and Rwanda) ESCAP (Bangkok) |
| 1982-1986 | Development consultant |
| 1983-1984 | Senior Design Officer, USAID (Kinshasa, Zaire) |
| 1987-1989 | Senior Consultant, National HIV/AIDS Strategy, Department of Community Services and Health, Canberra |
| 1989-1998 | Director and Policy Adviser, United Nations Development Program (New York) |
| 1998-2000 | Resident Co-ordinator of the UN and Resident Representative of the UN Development Program in Papua New Guinea |
| 2001 | Awarded AO |
| 2001+ | Consultant; Visiting Fellow, Australian National University |
Membership of Boards and Societies
| Date | Event |
| 1988-1989 | Australian National HIV/AIDS Strategy Steering Committee, Canberra |
| 1988-1989 | HIV Program, Chikankata Hospital, Mazumbuka, Zambia |
| 1992-1996 | Board of the Australian Institute, Canberra |
| 1992-1998 | Society for Women in Philosophy, New York |
| 1992-1997 | International Advisory Board on AIDS and Society, USA |
| 1996+ | International Advisory Board, 'Societés D'Afrique et SIDA', Université de Bordeaux, France |
Biographical Note
Elizabeth Reid (born 1942) was educated in Sydney and Canberra. In the early 1960s she worked as a computer programmer. She graduated with BA Hons from the ANU in 1965 and with a B Phil from Oxford University in 1970. From 1970 to 1973 she worked as a senior tutor in the Philosophy Department at the ANU.
In February 1973, soon after taking office, Gough Whitlam's Labor government advertised for the new position of Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on women's issues. The advertisement resulted in 450 applications from which a short-list of eighteen women were selected for interview. The short-list included such noted feminists as Beatrice Faust, Suzanne Baker, Susan Ryan, Dany Humphreys (Torsh), Eva Cox, Ann Forward, Deborah McCulloch, Lyndall Ryan and Anne Summers.
The job of Special Adviser went to Liz Reid. There was no similar position anywhere else in the world so there were no precedents for the Adviser's agenda or activities. The task was daunting especially since Reid had the assistance of only one staffer. There were plenty of ideas in the women's liberation movement, which emerged in Australia as in other countries in the late 1960s, about priorities for improving the situation of women, but there was also criticism about the establishment of the position of women's adviser and scepticism about what such a person could achieve. Many women wrote to Reid with suggestions about what needed to be done and where help was required from the government (Reid received more mail than anyone in the government apart from the Prime Minister) but the media was scornful and cynical about the value of such a position. The terms 'Superwoman', 'SuperFem' and 'Ms Liz' were used by both critics and supporters, by critics to deride the appointment and by supporters to indicate the difficulties of the task that lay ahead.
The Whitlam government took important steps with regard to no-fault divorce, equal pay, the supporting mothers' benefit, an adult minimum wage for women and maternity leave, supported family planning in community health centres (including the establishment of the Leichhardt Community Women's Health Centre), investigated the educational needs of women and girls, established a Women's Affairs Section in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (later upgraded to a Branch), investigated sexism in the Public Service and established the Royal Commission on Human Relationships. There was however much controversy about its policy toward the key issue of child care which the conservatives in the Labor Party opposed.
The Whitlam government also decided to make a special effort to implement the objectives of International Women's Year, 1975 and in late 1974 $2 million was allocated to women's projects, the first time that funds had been specifically set aside for such a purpose. Reid established the National Advisory Council to plan and organise International Women's Year in Australia and to administer the grants. The NAC included people such as Irene Greenwood, Margaret Whitlam, Caroline Jones, Ruby Hammond, Diana Waite, Barry Egan (trade unionist) and Jim Spigelman from the Office of the Prime Minister. The media were critical about the '$2 million for the Sheilas' and remained generally hostile during IWY, treating it as a waste of taxpayers' money on extremist or trivial causes. The distribution of grants was also controversial, especially within the women's movement in Sydney where there was criticism of the support given to books, films and festivals (including a grant to Germaine Greer for a TV documentary) rather than to initiatives such as Elsie, the first women's refuge in Sydney, or to the Rape Crisis Centre set up in Sydney in October 1974. The year long IWY program resulted in many activities which focussed on the contemporary and historical situation of women, especially major events such as the Women and Health Conference, and the Women and Politics Conference. A delegation from Australia also attended the IWY Conference in Mexico. Other outcomes included the establishment of the Working Women's Centre, the ABC's 'Coming Out' show, the Women's Film Fund and the compilation of the Schools Commission report on Girls, Schools and Society and of Women in Australia: An Annotated Guide to Records (a project directed by Kay Daniels).
In late 1975, when the new secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister, John Menadue decided to have Liz Reid transferred from the Prime Minister's Office to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet she refused to agree to this change in her position and influence and resigned. Since then she has mostly lived and worked overseas. In 1975 she took up a position as adviser to Princess Ashraf Pahlavi of Iran on development planning and women and later became Director of the UN Asian and Pacific Centre for Women and Development (in Teheran) from 1977 to 1979. During 1976 she was also a Fellow at the Institute of Politics and the JF Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The worsening situation in Iran which eventually led to the fall of the Shah and the assumption of power by Ayatollah Khomeini led Liz Reid to take up a position as consultant to the Commonwealth Secretariat in London in 1979 after which she became the principal officer of the Secretariat for the 1980 World Conference of the Decade for Women, 1979 to 1980.
Since 1981 Reid has worked on development and health programs, many relating to HIV/AIDS, in Bangkok, Zaire, Burundi, Rwanda, New York, Canberra and Papua New Guinea. She has worked in a variety of roles for a range of organisations within the United Nations, as well as for USAID and the Peace Corps. She continues to speak at conferences and publish extensively on issues relating to women in development and HIV/AIDS.
In 2001 Reid was made an Officer of the Order or Australia for her contributions to international relations, the welfare of women and her work on the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Series List and Descriptions
Series 1 Correspondence, 1973-1980
The bulk of the correspondence in this series emanates from Reid's period of Special Adviser on Women's Affairs. Personal and official letters can be found together in the files created by Reid.
Folder 1 Ledger book recording incoming letters, date received, action taken etc., arranged alphabetically, July 1973+
Folder 12 Correspondence, 6 December 1976-29 June 1975
Correspondence sent and received while Special Adviser on Women's Affairs to the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. The topics include requests for articles, requests for suggestions for names of women to appoint to boards and other bodies, requests for support for projects and invitations to speak
Folder 13-22 Correspondence, 1977-1978
Incoming correspondence, including many personal letters from friends while stationed overseas. Approximately 150 letters, many concerned with Reid's role on the Australian National Advisory Committee of International Women's Year.
Folder 23-24 Correspondence, May 1977-December 1978
Correspondence received and sent while Director, UN Asian and Pacific Centre for Women and Development, Teheran. The Centre was a regional research and training institute of ESCAP. Elizabeth Reid's task was to establish, staff and work out the Centre's program. The correspondence includes copies of letters sent, letters received and telegrams dealing both with work and personal matters, including the dangers of being in Iran during the period immediately preceding the overthrow of the Shah and the establishment of the government of Ayatollah Khomenei. Some of the correspondence deals with Reid's negotiations about a job with the Commonwealth Secretariat following her APCWD contract. Included also is correspondence with her daughter Kathryn (who remained in Australia) and her parents.
Folder 25-27 Correspondence in and out, March 1977-December 1978
Topics include work and personal matters. Correspondents include Irene Greenwood.
Folder 28 Correspondence in and out, June 1978-October 1978
Topics include work and personal matters, travel arrangements, UN matters, job applications by other people.
Folder 29-32 Correspondence, 1978-1979
Incoming correspondence received while Director, Asian and Pacific Centre for Women and Development, Iran, and consultant, Commonwealth Secretariat, London. Approximately 300 items, often with attachments, brochures, other material relevant to subject matter of correspondence. Most items deal with work and personal matters. Correspondents include: The Minority Rights Group, UK; World YWCA, Fiji; The Implementation and Management Group, Sydney; Office of Business Development, Papua New Guinea; International Women's Tribune Centre, USA; Pan-Pacific and S-E Asia Women's Association and the School of Public Health, University of Michigan, USA.
Folder 33-34 'Chrono: incoming and unanswered', 1979-1980
Correspondents include UNESCO on Population Division; Harvard University Fellowship Program, seeking suggestions for scholarships; UN Asian and Pacific Development Institute.
Folder 35-36 'Chrono: incoming and answered', 1979-1980
Correspondents include Women's Counselling Project, Columbia University, New York; American Philosophical Association, USA and the United Nations.
Folder 37-38 'Chrono', 1980
Carbon copies of Reid's out correspondence; incoming mainly from the United Nations, and related offices worldwide, on the organisation and running of the World Conference of the UN Decade for Women, 1980.
Folder 39-42 Correspondence, November 1979-December 1980
Correspondence while working for the 1980 UN World Conference. Includes letters sent and received, invitations, press clippings, poems, UN papers and resolutions. Correspondents include Australian feminists such as Eve Mahlab. Included also is copy of an interview in Denmark, July 1980, in which Reid discusses Iran.
Series 2 Invitations and other items, 1973-1975
These invitations date predominantly from Reid's period as Special Adviser on Women's Affairs.
Folder 1 Invitations declined, April 1973-July 1973
Includes invitations from VIEW Clubs, the University of NSW School of Political Science, the Bega Pre-School Kindergarten Mother's Club and the Institute of Private Secretaries of Australia.
Folder 2 Invitations, August 1973-December 1973
Includes invitations from a wide range of organisations and individuals, for example VIEW Clubs, the Bendigo Institute of Technology, the Flinders University Post-Graduate Students Association, Sydney University Government Department, and the Melbourne Ports Federal Electorate organisation of the ALP.
Folder 3 Invitations and correspondence, April 1973-July 1973
Includes congratulations on appointment as Women's Adviser, papers relating to meetings, such as the National Committee on Social Welfare and invitations to be the guest speaker at various functions.
Series 3 Notebooks
Handwritten diaries and notebooks, most undated, with appointments, notes and phone numbers.
Series 4 Personal documents, 1973-1977
Folder 1 Personal papers, 1973-1975
Includes application for the Special Adviser's position, 14 February 1973.
Folder 3 Personal documents
Curriculum vitae, 1973, photographs of Elizabeth Reid and press releases relating to her.
Folder 5 Material collected for paper on abortion law reform, c.1973
Written for publication but marked `withdrawn after job'.
Series 5 Australian National University, 1973-1975
Most of the papers in this series were gathered or generated during the time that Reid served on the Council of the Australian National University, March 1974-March 1976. Some also relate to her roles as tutor and lecturer at the University, in particular the course 'Women and Society' which Reid conducted at the Centre for Continuing Education, ANU.
Folders 1 to 25 contain ANU Council Papers, including Annual Reports, agendas, Standing Committee of Council agendas, attachments to agendas from various faculties, and some correspondence.
Folder 1 Annual reports, 1973
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Arts
- Faculty of Asian Studies
- Research School of Pacific Studies
Folder 2 Annual reports, 1973
-Faculty of Science
-Research School of Earth Sciences
-Research School of Chemistry
Folder 3 Annual reports, 1973
- Research School of Physical Sciences
- Research School of Biological Sciences
- John Curtin School of Medicine
Folder 4 Various papers, 1973
Board of Management Chairman's Report, 1973
Booklet 'History of the site plan', 1973
Student Welfare Committee, 1973
Annual report, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, 1973
Folder 16 Annual reports, 1974
- Faculty of Asian Studies
- Research School of Earth Sciences
- Research School of Physical Sciences
- Centre for Continuing Education
- Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies
- North Australia Research Unit
Series 6 Literature on the Women's Movement, 1972-1974
Much of the material in this series supported the course 'Women in Society' taught at the ANU Centre for Continuing Education from 1972 to 1973.
This box contains women's magazines, for example Refractory Girl (3 issues, 1973-74), photocopies of articles on feminism, Thoughts on Feminism, London, 1972; publications by Center for Women Policy Studies, Washington D.C., including Women and Credit: an Annotated Bibliography; publications by Women's Action Alliance, NY, including Carol Shapiro, How to Organize a Multi-Service Women's Center (1974) and Catherine Samuels, How to Make the Media Work for You (1974).
See also Series 5, Australian National University, Series 18, Publications, and some of the papers in Series 17, Miscellaneous.
Series 7 Australian Union of Students; National Union of Australian University Students, 1969-1975
This material documents Reid's involvement with student unions, particularly the administration of student insurance schemes.
Series 8 Women and development, 1973-1980
From 1977 to 1979 Reid was Founding Director and Project Manager of the United Nations Asian and Pacific Centre for Women and Development, in Tehran, Iran. The papers in this series relate not only to this post but also to Reid's interest in all aspects of aid to developing countries.
Folder 1 Various papers, 1973
Papers relating to Australia's international training activities to December 1973 and to information from the Australian Development Assistance Agency about private overseas students in Australia as at 30 June 1973.
Folder 2-4 Papers relating to the Conference on the Role of Women in Society and Development, Sweden, 1974
Folder 5 Papers relating to the proposed Percy amendment in the US House of Representatives, 1973-1974
The Percy Amendment concerned the integration of women into the economies of foreign countries.
Folder 7 Handwritten notes on women and development
Correspondence relating to women and development Includes statement by Reid on the occasion of the official inauguration of the Asian and Pacific Centre for Women and Development, Tehran, 27 February 1977.
Folder 8 Draft of report by Teresita Silva on Integration of Women in Development, 15 May 1976
Photocopy.
Folder 9 Draft Report of Intergovernmental Consultation on the Asian and Pacific Centre for Women and Development, November 1976
Folder 11-15 Asian and Pacific Centre for Women and Development, Teheran, then Bangkok, 1977-1980
Contains various reports and papers, including: Feminist Ideology and Structures in the First Half of the Decade for Women (1979); Environment Issues Affecting Women with Particular Reference to Housing and Human Settlements (1980).
Folder 16 American Association for the Advancement of Science: Report of Seminar on Women in Development, July 1975
Folder 17 Various publications
W Brazil, Bibliography on Third World Publications Since 1970. 'Colony within the colony', chapter 8 of Women, resistance and revolution, by Sheila Rowbotham (London, Allen Lane, 1972) (photocopy), Participation of women in community development (United Nations, New York, 1972).
Folder 18-22 Program and other material relating to 15th World Conference, Society for International Development on Equality of Opportunity between Nations, Amsterdam, 1976
Folder 25 Various publications
'Audio Cassette Listening Forums: a Participatory Women's Development Project', produced by the Office of Women in Development, Washington, DC Report of the International Workshop on Feminist Ideology and Structures in the First Half of the Decade for Women', Bangkok, 1979
Series 9 United Nations - General, 1972-1980
This series brings together the more general literature gathered by Reid during her involvement with the United Nations. See also Series 14, 15 and 18 for more papers relating to the UN.
Folder 1-4 Various UN reports
Copies of UN reports on women, the UN Report on the Future of the World Economy 1976, Security Council report 197? and documents relating to Iran, 1973, and Algeria, 1974.
Series 10 National Commission on Social Welfare, 1973
The National Commission on Social Welfare, also known as the Australian Social Welfare Commission, was established in April 1973 to make recommendations to the Government on the development of social welfare in Australia. The Commission was headed by Marie Coleman. It had a Deputy Chairman and nine part-time members. The Commission reported to the Minister for Social Security, Bill Hayden. The papers in this small series were copies sent to Elizabeth Reid.
Series 11 World Population Conference, 1974
Papers relating to the World Population Conference, Bucharest, 1974, including background papers from various countries, agenda, provisional rules of procedure and reports produced by Australian Bureau of Statistics for the conference
Series 12 Childcare and Early Childhood Education, 1972-1975
Newspaper clippings, speeches and cabinet decisions on childcare and early childhood education. There are also press releases relating to childcare, 1973-1974
Series 13 Women's Affairs, 1973-1979
Papers relating to the Office of Women's Affairs, National Women's Advisory Council and the National Organisation of Women (USA).
Folder 1 Papers relating to Prime Minister's speeches to women's conferences, 1975
Contains press release on IWY grants.
Folder 2-3 Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet - material collected for Prime Minister's speech on 8 March 1975 (International Women's Day)
Folder 5 National Women's Advisory Council Papers, 1974-1979
Report of Office of Women's Affairs, 1977. Government Record on Action for Women - Quotations, Statistics, Achievements, April 1974.
Series 14 International Women's Year (1975), 1973-1976
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.
Folder 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: Folders 1-23: Committees; Folders 24-31: Planning - general; Folders 32-40: Grants, submissions, projects; Folders 41-46: Reports; Folders 47-66: Files on people and issues; Folders 67-71a: Publicity, press releases, speeches; Folders 72-99: World Conference of the International Women's Year, Mexico City, 19 June to 2 July, 1975, and Mexico Tribune; Folders 100-121: Other conferences.
Folder 2 Papers relating to Australian National Advisory Committee meetings, November 1974-August 1975
Folder 24 Various papers, 1974-1975
To do, 1974
Creative, 1974-1975
International Women's Day, 8 March 1975
Folder 41 Reports by Spectrum on Women in Australia, 1975
Prepared for Elizabeth Reid, Convenor IWY.
Folder 42 Report of the World Conference of International Women's Year (New York, United Nations), 1976
(see also Folder 99 for duplicate)
Folder 43-46 Report on the Status of Women in Australia, 1975
Report prepared by Spectrum International Marketing Services for the Australian National Advisory Committee for International Women's Year, 4 volumes.
Folder 52 Two articles
Equality: the New Issues (Victorian Fabian pamphlet), n.d.
Typed article on women's inequality with handwritten notes, labelled 'Sara's notes' (probably Sara Dowse)
Folder 55-57 Other countries, 1975
Includes newsletters, articles and other communications on IWY from countries such as France, Canada, Yugoslavia and Iran.
Folder 64 List of IWY research projects; Papers relating to Maria Pozo's unfair dismissal (Melbourne), 1975
Folder 69 Prime Minister's speech and press statement - transcript of Prime Minister's speech on Mexico City conference (10 August 1975), 1975
Folder 73 Various papers, 1975
Tribune of the International Women's Year, Mexico, 19 June to 2 July 1975. This was an independent, parallel activity held concurrently with the UN World Conference. Organised by non-government agencies, the forum took place in the National Medical Center convention area in Mexico City.
Complete set of Xilonen, the daily newspaper of the International Women's Year Tribune, 19 June - 2 July 1975.
Folder 75 Prime Minister's speech on International Women's Year and International Women's Day, Melbourne, 8 March 1975
Folder 76 Various papers, 1973-1975
Address by Gough Whitlam, 1973 and papers relating to address by Whitlam to International Women's Year reception, Melbourne, 8 March 1975. Statement by Elizabeth Reid on IWY, 1975
Folder 82-83 'Women in Australian Society: analyses and situations' - report prepared for Mexico conference, 1975
Two copies.
Folder 84-86 Various session papers, newsletters, press cuttings, information for participants, 1975
Folder 87-94 Mexico conference - various papers, including invitations, letters, agenda items, clippings, pamphlet and, recommendations, 1975
Folder 95-96 Mexico conference - various papers, including letters, memoranda, drafts of papers, statement by Elizabeth Reid, 1975
Folder 99 Report of the World Conference of International Women's Year (New York, United Nations), 1975
See also Folder 42 for duplicate.
Folder 100-101 Australian Mission to the Consultative Committee for the New York Conference, 3-14 March 1975
Folder 102 Conference papers, 1974-1975
National Women's Conference on Feminism and Socialism, Melbourne, October 1974
World Congress for IWY, Prague, 29-30 July, 1975
Folder 103 Papers relating to International Women's Year Health Conference, Brisbane, 25 August 1975
Folder 114-116 'Women and Politics' Conference, Canberra, 2 September 1975
Press clippings and press releases.
Series 15 World Conference of the UN Decade for Women, 1979-1980
This conference was held in Copenhagen, July 1980. Reid was the Principal Officer of the New York-based Secretariat for the 1980 World Conference of the UN Decade for Women.
Folder 1-5 Correspondence in and out, 1979-1980
Correspondence relating to the 1980 preparatory Committees of the World Conference of the UN Decade for Women.
Series 16 Subject files, 1968-1980
The subject files in Boxes 54 to 88 contain press clippings, newsletters, brochures, copies of submissions, correspondence, reports, background papers, reports of committees of inquiry and similar documents. Files have sometimes been placed under the first distinctive word of the title. For example, titles such as 'Women and...' have been filed under the next term rather than 'Women'.
Box 54 A
A.B.C.
Aboriginal Families Education Centre
Aborigines
Abortion (Personal)
Abortion - Medical Practice Clarification Bill
Abortion
Academic Institutes
Academic Institutions
Academic Research Centres
A.C.O.S.S.
A.C.F.O.A.
Adoption
Adviser on Women's Issues
Aid, Women and
Africa
A.I.S. [Australian Institute of Sport]
Albury-Wodonga
Alcoholism
A.L.R.A.
Alternative Trade Unions Women's Conference, Sydney, 1973
Amalgamated Metalworkers' Union
America
American Blacks
Box 55 A
Anti-Discrimination Legislation
Apprenticeships
A.N.U [Australian National University]
A.N.U. Council
A.N.Z.A.A.S.
A.N.U. Library
Arabia
Articles, etc. to write
Arts, Women in the
Auroville
Australian Assistance Plan
Australian Council of Catholic Women
Australian Council of Churches
Australian Federation of Women Voters
Australian Federation of University Women
Australian Frontier
Australian Post Office Commission of Enquiry - submission
Box 56 A-B
Australian [Public] Service - women in
Australian Union of Students
Australian Workers' Union
Bangui (Central African Republic)
Banks
Barbados
Battery
Battery - Economic notes and minute papers
Belgium
Birth rate
Bleak House
Books: dockets etc.
Box 57 B-C
Breadwinner
Briefing notes on what government has done for women
Budget documents, original
Building Workers' Industrial Union
Bulgaria
Business and Professional Women's Club
Business, Women in
Cabinet and Caucus
Dr Cairns' press statements
Canada
Canada - status of women
Box 58 C
Canada - other
Canada - day care
Cancer
Car: Elizabeth
Case studies
C.C.P.S.O. [Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations]
Box 59 C
Childbirth
Child endowment
Childhood accidents
Children's books and toys
Children's Commission - Interim Committee [empty file]
China
Church women
Church, women in the
Citizens' Advice Bureau of W.A. (Inc.)
Cleft Palate and Lip Society
Cleo [magazine]
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Jamaica, 1975
Clubs
Community Education
Community centres, women's
Compensation and rehabilitation - Woodhouse Inquiry
Box 60 C-D
Conceptual framework [women in the context of international issues]
Conference document
Conference invitations [1980 Decade for Women Conf.]
Conference administration
Conductresses
Congrat[ulation]s
Consciousness raising
Consumer Affairs
Contraception
Consumer protection
Coombs, H. C.
Correspondence to E.R. - examples
Correspondence E.R. - breakdown
Council for the Arts
Country - women in
Crime
Draft Criminal Code
Cuba
Curriculum Development Centre
Danish contacts
Darwin women
Daytime T.V.
Box 61 D
Death Duties
Decentralization
De facto wives
Denmark
Discrimination
District nurses
Divorce
Doctors and women
Documentation [1980 Decade for Women Conf.]
Drugs
Dual nationality problems and rights
Box 62 E
Catherine East - July 17-18
The Economy and women
Economy, women in the
Education, women in
Education
Education - computer
Education, 2nd file
Education - adult
Education - South Australia
Education - teachers
Education - technical
Box 63 E
Egypt
Electrical Trades Union
[Employment]
Employment, women in
Environment
Equal employment opportunity
Equal pay
Box 64 E-F
E.S.A. Women International
Ethiopia
European Economic Community
Ex-nuptial children
Factories
Facts
Fallacious arguments
Family
Family Law Bill
Family planning
Family Research Unit
Federated Clerks Union of Australia
Female convicts
Feminist identity
Festival of Light
F.I.L.E.F. [Federazione Italiana Lavoratori Emigrati Famigli]
Film, women and
Financial discrimination
Fitzroy Ecumenical Centre
Flexible working hours
Box 65 F-H
F.M. radio - media
Forum
Foreign aid
France
Fraser [Malcolm]
Future
Galleries, women in
Germany
Ghana
Girls for trips
God
Government, women in
The Grail
Grants
Greece
Green Paper on Women
Guaranteed minimum income
Handicaps, women and
Handicaps - learning difficulties
Handicapped children
Health
Health centres, women's
Box 67 H-I
Homemakers - W.A.
Homeless men and women - working party on
Homeless women
Homosexuality
Honours - Order of Australia
Host country [Decade for Women Conf., 1980]
Hostesses [air hostesses]
Hospitals and Health Services Commission
Human Rights Bill
Human settlement
Hungary
Humanist Society
I.B.M. employees and families study group
Image - women in sport
Image - women's magazines
Image - music
Image - heroines
Image - first women in past
Box 68 I
I.L.O. [International Labour Organisation]
I.L.O. conventions
Incomes - married women
Incomes
Indonesia
Industry, women in
Infertility - multiple births
Informal Prepcom [1980 Decade for Women Conf.]
Inquiry into the Australian Public Service
Inquiry into the Intelligence and Security Services of the Australian Government
Inquiry into Interpersonal Relationships
Insurance - Elizabeth
Insurance, women and
Inter-departmental [1980 Decade for Women Conf.]
International conferences, women delegates to
International Year of the Child
Interpersonal Relations Commission
Invitations
Box 69 I-L
Iran
International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women
Ireland
India
Irresponsibility of women
Island women
Israel
Italy
Japan
Jobs, women in
Jobs, women for
Journalists, women
Journalists' encounter
Juvenile offenders
Kids' Lib
Krinks, Clare
Labour, women in [Australian Labour Market]
Labour Review articles
Labour Market Training - Committee of Inquiry
Lakeside [Luncheon Club]
Labour, women in [work]
Labour force, women in
Language
Law, women and the
Lawyers, women
Latin America
Box 70 L-M
Legal aid
Leisure
Liberaction
Liberation
Literature
Local government
Local Government Women's Association
Lyceum Club
Male preserves
Management, women in
Maori women
Box 71 M
Maternity leave
Mature-age women - employment etc.
Media women - Canberra
Media
Medicine, women in
Melbourne Family Survey
Men's Lib
Mexico
[Migrant women]
Migrant women workers
Box 72 M-N
Migrant women
Minimum wage
Mining towns
Ministerial advisers
Money matters
Ms
Myths
National Council of Jewish Women
National Council of Women
Box 73 N
National gift to the Queen
National Organization for Women
National Organization for Women - kit
National Employment Training Scheme
National employment and training system
National Population Enquiry
National Wage Case
New Dawn
New woman
Netherlands
New South Wales State - women candidates
New South Wales [State] - Women's Advisory Board
New South Wales - teaching and education
New Zealand Labour Party
Box 74 N-O
New Zealand
Non-sexist books for girls
Nurses
Nursing homes
Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia
O.E.C.D. - Manpower and Social Affairs Committee - role of women in economy
Offers of help
Open University
Box 75 O-P
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Ovulation
Opposition
Palestinian women
[Palestine]
Papua New Guinea
Part time work
Pat
Philosophy
Poland
Politicos, women
Political power and women
Political rights of women, convention on
Politics, women and
Box 76 P
Population
Pouch/schedule [sending U.N. mail by pouch]
Poverty
Prep Com [1980 Decade for Women Conf.]
Pregnancy
Premier's conferences
Press releases
Press
Prices
Prime Minister - speeches
Prime Minister - correspondence
Prisons, women in
Procurement [Government purchasing]
Procurement policy
Professional women
Prostitution
Box 77 P-R
Psychological revolution
Psychology, women and
Public enemies
Public Service, women in the
Qualified women for jobs, commissions, etc.
Qantas
Queensland - Commission of Inquiry into the Status of Women
Queensland - Council of Queensland Women
Quest
Questionnaires
Rape
References
References - library
R.E.D. [Regional Employment Development Scheme]
Reform and revolution
Refuges
Regionalism
Box 78 R-S
Rehabilitation and compensation scheme
Reproduction - infertility
Reproduction - menopause
Retraining
Rewriting history
Role of women in Australia
Romania
Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration
S.A.D.A.F. [Southern Africa Defence and Aid Fund]
Schools Commission - Social Change and the Education of Women, 29/5/74
Sebel Town House Discussion Group
Secretariat
Secretaries
Sex education
Sex roles
Sexism
Sex segregation - women in workforce
Sexual behaviour
Sexuality - transvestites
Box 79 S
Social changes and the education of women, meetings in 1974
Social concerns
Social policy
Social welfare - isolation
Social welfare
Soroptimists
Society of Women Writers
S.P.E.L.D. [Specific Learning Difficulties]
Box 80 S
Spouse employment convention [U.S.A.]
Speeches and articles
Status of women
Suburbia
Subscriptions - E.R.
Superannuation
Steering Committee - next meeting [Schools Commission]
Study tour
Study tour, January-March 1974
Sweden
Sweden - education
Box 81 S-T
Sweden - general
Tanzania
Tasmanian farmers' wives
Task force - possible backing
Taxation
Taxation Review Committee (Asprey)
Teaching methods
Technical and further education
Theatre, women and
To be done - short term [empty file]
To be done - long term [empty file]
Things to be done - immediate future
'The Three Marias'
Toastmistresses
Town planning
Box 82 T-U
Trade unions, women and
Transsexuals
Trip
Turkey
Unborn child, the
Unemployment boutique
Unemployment
Unions
Union of Australian Women
United Associations of Women
United Kingdom
United Kingdom - other
United Kingdom - employment
Box 83 U
United Kingdom - education
United Kingdom - Fawcett Society and National Council of Women
Women's Lib and National Advisory Centre on Careers for Women
United Nations
United Nations - Women and Population
U.N.A.A. [United Nations Association of Australia]
United Nations Forum on the Role of Women in Population and Development
United Nations conventions
Box 85 U
United States of America - women and work
United States of America - Virginia Slims
United States of America - Equal Rights Amendment
U.S.S.R. [Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]
Universities, women in
Urban policy
Urban studies - Australian Institute
Box 86 V-W
Venezuela
Victims of crime, women as
Victorian Committee on the Status of Women
Views of women
V.I.E.W. [Voice, Interests and Education of Women]
Violence
Visuals - Elizabeth
Vocational guidance
Voluntary Fund for the U.N. Decade for Women
Wage fixation and indexation
Wine
Widows
Wollongong
Women's Art Movement
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Women's Education Coalition
Women's Commission
Women's Electoral Lobby
Women's Lib newsletters - Adelaide
Series 17 Miscellaneous
As well as discrete items which do not fit into the other series, this series contains many loose, unfiled papers. Many of them are copies of articles and reports which were probably gathered for university courses.
Folder 3 'The Second Sex - Thirty Years After': A Commemorative Conference on Feminist Theory New York, September 1979
Folder 4 Various papers, 1974-1978
Untitled file, containing articles mostly on women's issues in Kenya, c.1976-1978 Preparatory meeting for 1974 World Population Conference, Bucharest Photographs - Inter-American Dialogue Center, Airlie, Virginia, February 1974
Folder 6 Various papers
ERA Survey, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, 1976
Applications from students for Radical Politics and Feminism course, Institute of Politics, Cambridge Mass, n.d.
Folder 7 Transcript of recorded panel discussion, 'International Women's Day Celebration, AM Meeting', 1975
Speakers included in transcript include Ms [Elizabeth] Reid, Ms [Germaine] Greer, Dr Kuhrig, Justice Jiagge, Mr Toffler, Dr Bernard, Ms Langer, Ms Fallaci, Mr McRobie, Ms Liljestrom, Brother De Souza, Mr Tueni, Mrs Wilson, Ms Masevich.
Series 18 Publications, 1963-1981
This series comprises newspapers, press cuttings, periodicals, monographs, brochures and kits. They relate mainly to women's issues, the commemoration of International Women's Year, legal and medical topics, population control, economic development and education. The press cuttings and copies of whole Australian newspapers contain articles about women's issues or about Elizabeth Reid. Iran is another frequent topic and some articles are by Reid herself.
The sets of periodicals are very incomplete - sometimes only one or two issues. The series begins with press cuttings and newspapers. They are followed by an alphabetical sequence of periodical issues, monographs or monographs-in-series. After the alphabetical sequence, there are publications grouped under the Australian Government, United Nations, United States of America, Canada, UK, I.L.O. and OECD.
Selected titles only are listed below. See also Series 6 and 17.
Folder 10 A
Includes American women (1963), Advertising and women (1975), Abortion: repeal or reform (1972), Australian Labor Party Constitution and rules (1971), The Australian family: research bulletin (1975).
Folder 12-13 C
Commonwealth information (1976-78), Ceres (1975), Camp ink (1971-1972), Craft horizons (1974), Conference for Massachusetts City Councillors (1978).
Folder 15-16 F
Includes The feminist art journal (several issues), Fortune (1978), The furies (several issues), Freedom, power and authority (1971), Les femmes et la Communauté européenne (1980).
Folder 17 G-H
Includes A guide to women's studies in Australia (1975), The Geelong experiment in social planning (1973), Guidelines for improving the image of women in textbooks (1972), Harper's magazine (1971).
Folder 18 I
Includes International labour review (1975), The Impressionists annual (1976), I was a lady and other picture stories (1976), Images of women in the literature of selected developing countries (1981); Introduction to the women's movement (1975).
Folder 20 L
Includes The lesbian feminist (1974), Liberation (1975), Labor heroines: ten women who led the struggle (1974), Lectures on liberation (Angela Davis, 1969).
Folder 28 M
Includes Melbourne feminist collection (1973), Mujeres (Havana, 1975), The missing half (1975), A model for non-sexist child development (1975).
Folder 29-30 N
Includes New internationalist (1978), New journalist (1974), National Health and Medical Research Council Report (1975), Nova (1970), New women in China (1972), The Nemow Case: case studies of the impact of large scale development projects on women (1979).
Folder 31 O
Includes Oppose apartheid: an action and information kit (1975), Our bodies, ourselves (1971, 1973).
Folder 32-33 P-Q
Includes People (several issues), Planned parenthood and women's development (1977, 1978), Power of women (1975), Problems of Communism (1971), Populi (United Nations Fund for Population Activities, 1975, 1977), The politics of sexuality in Capitalism (n.d.), Quest (1978).
Folder 36 R
Includes Rosa Luxemburg: revolutionary theoretician (n.d.), The role of women in New Zealand society (1975).
Folder 37-39 S
Includes Scarlet woman (several issues), Saturday review (1975), St Mark's review (1974), Second wave (several issues), Spare rib (several issues), Sex in the marketplace: American women at work (1971)
Folder 40 T
Includes Third world quarterly (1980), Theoretical linguistics (1977), Tribune (1973), Time magazine (1974, 1975), Trades union directory (Australian Council of Trade Unions, Queensland State Branch, 1972), Thoughts on feminism (1972).
Folder 41 U-V
Includes United women's convention (1973), Vashti's voice (1975), Voice (1974), The Virginia Slims American women's poll (1972), Vogue (1972).
Folder 43 W
Includes Women's weal (several issues), Womanspeak (several issues), The WEL papers (1973/4).
Folder 46 W
Includes World Population Society Report (1974), Women in developing countries - case studies of six countries (1974).
Folder 47 W
Includes Women workers (1972, 1973), Wife battering in Canada (1980), Worldwatch paper (1980), Win with women (1974), Women and voting studies: mindless matrons or sexist scientism? by Murray Goot and Elizabeth Reid (1975).
Box 106 Publications by the US Government, 1970-1974
Includes Transcripts on Labour, Public Welfare and Abortion, 8 volumes.
Container List
| Series | Folder/Item | Box |
| 1 | 1-7 | 1 |
| 1 | 8-16 | 2 |
| 1 | 17-24 | 3 |
| 1 | 25-31 | 4 |
| 1 | 32-39 | 5 |
| 1 | 40-46 | 6 |
| 2 | 1-8 | 7 |
| 3 | Loose 1 box | 8 |
| 4 | 1-8 | 9 |
| 5 | 1-6 | 10 |
| 5 | 7-11 | 11 |
| 5 | 12-16 | 12 |
| 5 | 17-22 | 13 |
| 5 | 23-28 | 14 |
| 5 | 29-35 | 15 |
| 6 | Loose in box | 16 |
| 7 | 1-8 | 17 |
| 7 | 9-16 | 18 |
| 7 | 17-21 | 19 |
| 8 | 1-7 | 20 |
| 8 | 8-14 | 21 |
| 8 | 15-20 | 22 |
| 8 | 21-26 | 23 |
| 9 | 1-4 | 24 |
| 9 | 5-8 | 25 |
| 10 | 1-4 | 26 |
| 11 | 1-3 | 26 |
| 11 | 4-10 | 27 |
| 11 | 11 | 28 |
| 12 | 1-4 | 28 |
| 13 | 1-8 | 29 |
| 13 | 9-11 | 30 |
| 14 | 1-7a | 31 |
| 14 | 8-15 | 32 |
| 14 | 16-22 | 33 |
| 14 | 23-29 | 34 |
| 14 | 30-37 | 35 |
| 14 | 38-42 | 36 |
| 14 | 43-46 | 37 |
| 14 | 47-54 | 38 |
| 14 | 55-63 | 39 |
| 14 | 64-71a | 40 |
| 14 | 72-79 | 41 |
| 14 | 80-86 | 42 |
| 14 | 87-94 | 43 |
| 14 | 95-101 | 44 |
| 14 | 102-108 | 45 |
| 14 | 109-113 | 46 |
| 14 | 114-121 | 47 |
| 15 | 1-8 | 48 |
| 15 | 9-17 | 49 |
| 15 | 18-26 | 50 |
| 15 | 27-32 | 51 |
| 15 | 33-36 | 52 |
| 15 | 37-39 | 53 |
| 16 | A | 54-55 |
| 16 | A-B | 56 |
| 16 | B-C | 57 |
| 16 | C | 58-59 |
| 16 | C-D | 60 |
| 16 | D | 61 |
| 16 | E | 62-63 |
| 16 | E-F | 64 |
| 16 | F-H | 65 |
| 16 | H | 66 |
| 16 | H-I | 67 |
| 16 | I | 68 |
| 16 | I-L | 69 |
| 16 | L-M | 70 |
| 16 | M | 71 |
| 16 | M-N | 72 |
| 16 | N | 73 |
| 16 | N-O | 74 |
| 16 | O-P | 75 |
| 16 | P | 76 |
| 16 | P-R | 77 |
| 16 | R-S | 78 |
| 16 | S | 79-80 |
| 16 | S-T | 81 |
| 16 | T-U | 82 |
| 16 | U | 83-85 |
| 16 | V-W | 86 |
| 16 | W-Y | 88 |
| 17 | 1-3 | 88 |
| 17 | 4-9 | 89 |
| 17 | 10-14 | 90 |
| 17 | 15-18 | 91 |
| 17 | 19-21 | 92 |
| 18 | 1-5 | 93 |
| 18 | 6-9 | 94 |
| 18 | 10-13 | 95 |
| 18 | 14-18 | 96 |
| 18 | 19-23 | 97 |
| 18 | 24-28 | 98 |
| 18 | 29-32 | 99 |
| 18 | 33-37 | 100 |
| 18 | 38-40 | 101 |
| 18 | 41-44 | 102 |
| 18 | 45-48 | 103 |
| 18 | 49-51 | 104 |
| 18 | 52-53 & loose volumes | 105 |
| 18 | 11 volumes loose in box | 106 |
| 18 | 54-55 | 107 |
| 18 | 56 | 108 |