Document 66: "U.S. Map Showing States with Statewide Networks," in Susanna Downie, Decade of Achievement: 1977-1987: A Report on a Survey Based on the National Plan of Action for Women (Washington, D.C.: National Women's Conference Committee, 1988), p. 14.

Introduction

   In 1988, Susanna Downie published Decade of Achievement: 1977-1987: A Report on a Survey Based on the National Plan of Action for Women, a publication of the National Women's Conference Committee. Beginning in 1986 Downie and a coalition of researchers associated with the National Women's Conference Center began collecting data to assess the impact of the National Plan. Researchers approached a random sample of 2,000 women's organizations and asked each to describe how their organization achieved goals laid out in the National Plan. This map shows the states in which the surveyed women's organizations were located.

   Downie concluded in Decade of Achievement that "all the progress chronicled herein has been made by women themselves" through existing or newly-created institutions and organizations.[75] One of the most important legacies of the National Women's Conference of 1977 was the creation of the alliances women made at the state and territory meetings and at the NWC in Houston. These alliances were subsequently developed into statewide networks. In the face of an increasingly disengaged federal government the establishment of grassroots networks was crucial for the enactment of feminist reforms.

U.S. MAP SHOWING STATES WITH STATEWIDE NETWORKS

   

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