Document 7B: "Summary of Resolutions Adopted By State Meetings," in National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year, The Spirit of Houston: The First National Women's Conference (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978), p. 117.

Introduction

   In addition to the 16 core resolutions debated at each state and territory meeting (see Document 7A), women and men who attended the meetings suggested another 4,500 resolutions representing issues of concern to women around the nation. Document 7 categorizes these resolutions and tabulates the voting results from each of these meetings. This table also identifies the issues that state and territory meetings requested be the subject of workshops at the November conference in Houston. The NCOIWY considered all 4,500 proposed resolutions as it compiled the agenda for the NWC in Houston.[58]

SUMMARY OF RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY STATE MEETINGS

(In Addition to Core Agenda Resolutions)

Topic	Total Number Adopted	Number of States Submitting	Total Workshop Recommendations	Number of States Submitting
Arts and Humanities	75	22	12	3
Battered Women	235	35	35	7
Child Care	250	42	29	8
Commission on the Status of Women	12	8	0	0
Credit	38	18	18	10
Education	458	43	146	9
Elective and appointive office	107	29	21	6
Employment	529	43	148	10
ERA	39	19	18	6
Female Offenders	252	30	6	2
Handicapped	41	15	21	4
Health	429	37	106	9
Homemaker	147	34	50	8
Housing	89	18	13	2
Insurance	67	19	5	4
International	204	33	119	9
Lesbianism	178	34	31	7
Media	168	35	24	8
Minority women	164	23	34	5
Older women	184	36	39	7
Prostitution	13	11	0	0
Rape	205	36	32	8
Reproductive freedom	182	41	33	7
Rural women	44	19	15	5
Volunteerism	64	18	19	4
Welfare	94	27	45	5
Women and the military	30	10	0	0

   

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