The Victoria chapter of the Status of Women Action Group (SWAG) was formed in 1971 in response to the 1970 Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. SWAG is a feminist organization that promotes economic, political and social equality and freedom for women. It is a non-profit society with several committees working on specific issues of concern to women. The group is an active member of the BC and Yukon Association of Women's Centres and the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.

In Collection:

• Victoria Feminist Newsletters

Creator

• Victoria Status of Women Action Group

Subject

• Women--Societies and clubs
• Women
• Women--Economic conditions
• Feminism
• Sex discrimination against women
• Women's rights
• Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
• Women--Social conditions
• Women--Employment--Law and legislation

Publisher

• Victoria, BC : Status of Women Action Group

Language

• eng

Identifier

• Call Number: HQ1154 S954

Date created

• November 1978

Resource type

• Text
• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 24 pages ; 28 x 21.5 cm

Alternative title

• Victoria SWAG Newsletter
• Status of Women Action Group Newsletter
• Victoria Status of Women News
• Victoria Status of Women Action Group Newsletter

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia
• British Columbia--Victoria

Coordinates

• 48.4359, -123.35155
• 53.99983, -125.0032

Additional physical characteristics

• side stapled ; inside front cover is printed upside down in the original

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Victoria Feminist Newsletters

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• newsletters
• publications (documents)
• serials (publications)
• periodicals

Fonds title

• Status of Women Action Group, Victoria Branch
• Victoria Women's Movement Newsletter and Pamphlet collection

Fonds identifier

• AR119
• AR439

Is referenced by

• Archival Finding Aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/victoria-womens-movement-newsletter-and-pamphlet-collection
• Archival Finding Aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/victoria-status-of-women-action-group-fonds

Date digitized

• September 2022

Technical note

• Scanned on the Plustek OpticBook A300 as 600DPI Tiffs, then cropped and resized then run through Zoidberg to compress and create a PDF, which is OCRd by PD. Metadata by AG.

Rights

• This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/67qg-sq69

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