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Action for Equal Opportunity
Major excerpts from an address by McGeorge Bundy at the annual banquet of the National Urban League, in Philadelphia, Aug. 2, 1966. In his first major speech after becoming President of the Ford Foundation, Bundy stated that achieving full equality for African Americans was the major task facing the United States, and that this would be the major domestic focus of the Foundation in the coming years.
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1966 |
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Afro-American Studies
The history and future prospects of Afro-American studies, set in the context of changes in American universities and the struggles of blacks for social justice.
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1985 |
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Bridging the Divide
A report summarizing a meeting convened by the Ford Foundation on reproductive health and human development issues in Istanbul in 1998. The meeting brought together program officers in an attempt to explore issues and challenges in the areas of reproductive health, sexuality and human development specifically pertaining to the developing world.
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1999 |
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Changing Relations
A report to the Ford Foundation by the National Board of the Changing Relations Project. The board examined the everyday interactions and relations among new immigrants and residents in six communities: Albany Park, Chicago, Illinois; Garden City, Kansas; Houston, Texas; Miami, Florida; Monterey Park, California; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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1993 |
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Civil Rights, Social Justice, and Black America
A Ford Foundation Working Paper that reviews Foundation efforts to promote racial justice for black Americans.
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1984 |
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Created Equal: A Report on Ford Foundation Women's Programs
A discussion of Foundation support for efforts to enhance women's rights and opportunities in the 1970's and 1980's.
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1986 |
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Feminism in the Mid-1970s
A detailed analysis of American feminism by the author of The New Feminist Movement (Russel Sage, 1974).
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1975 |
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Feminist Pluralism
Remarks delivered at the Women's Program Forum, Ford Foundation, September 29, 1986.
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1987 |
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Financial Support of Women's Programs in the 1970's
A survey of the work of foundations, the federal government and international organizations on behalf of women.
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1979 |
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Gender Bias in Testing
A public policy discussion, with particular attention to the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Panelists are Phyllis Rosser (presenter), Susan Brown, Marcia Greenberger, Sylvia Johnson, George Medaus, Maureen Welsh and Leslie R. Wolfe. A publication of the Women's Program Forum.
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1991 |
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Men and Women: At Home and in the Workplace
A seminar on the challenge of balancing work and family responsibilities. Includes discussion of some employers' programs to help men and women meet that challenge. Panelists are Charles Brumfield, Arlie Hochschild, Rhona Rapoport, Beth Salerno and Faith Wohl. A publication of the Women's Program Forum.
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1991 |
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Race Relations and Ethnicity
The first Whitney M. Young, Jr. Memorial Lecture at Columbia University, Oct. 24, 1984, which discusses race, ethnic relations, and affirmative action internationally, with special emphasis on South Africa and the United States.
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1985 |
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Refugees and Migrants
A look at the causes and consequences of today's major international population flows and the Ford Foundation's new programs to address the problems of refugees and migrants in the United States and elsewhere in the world. Prepared for the December 1986 meeting of the Board of Trustees. Attachments include supporting documents and a list of grant actions concerning refugees and migrants from FY1982-1986 for the Human Rights and Social Justice, and International Affairs Programs.
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1986 |
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Relinking Life and Work
Reports on the results of research conducted at Xerox, Tandem Computers and Corning, demonstrating that productivity can increase when changes in work practices benefit employees' personal lives. This study is part of the Foundation's efforts to advance understanding of gender and family issues and their impact on important areas of life.
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1996 |
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Reproductive Health
Report on a projected $125-million,10-year program in reproductive health, with a focus on the needs of disadvantaged women, particularly in developing countries. The recommended program strategy focuses on social science research, women's empowerment and communications in the areas of policy, ethics and law, and marks a shift away from programs in earlier decades which had focused on population control.
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1991 |
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Violence Against Women
A seminar on violence against women and programs to combat it. Includes discussion of services for battered women and reforms in the criminal justice system. A publication of the Women's Program Forum.
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1992 |
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Women in American Politics
Transcripts from "1992: The Year of the Woman in American Politics?" a symposium of the Women's Program Forum presented in 1993. Noted experts, including a newly elected member of Congress and a political journalist, discuss political events of 1992, considered by many a watershed year for women in American politics. Participants include Celinda Lake, Ruth B. Mandel, Linda Tarr-Whelan, Nydia M. Velazquez, Linda Wertheimer, Linda Williams and Harriet Woods.
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1994 |
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Women in the World
In 1980 Ford more than doubled its funding of programs aimed at advancing women's roles and opportunities around the world, investing a total of $19.3 million. This position paper outlines in general terms the effects of gender discrimination on women around the world and outlines Ford's plans for addressing these inequities.
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1980 |
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Women's Studies
Reviews the status of women's studies and the programs of the Ford Foundation from 1969 to 1995, with particular attention to the mainstreaming of women's studies, the role of women of color, international issues and future directions of the discipline.
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1995 |
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