Northern California Spring Meeting
Sat. April 29, 2000
Monthly Support Group
WAGE women living near UCB have established a monthly lunch group where we
exchange updates on
cases as well as insight and ideas from shared experiences. If you would be
interested in getting a similar
group going in your area, we recommend it as a way of getting intellectual,
professional and physical
nourishment.
Welcome to Newsletter #12 By Marjorie Mosier, M.D.,
Co-Coordinator
WAGE extends a warm welcome to all new members and to those who want
to know what WAGE is all about. The issues WAGE cares about are fairness, one
standard for advancement, and equity in distribution of resources, issues that
directly impact all university faculty, students and staff. People not connected
with the University of California express disbelief when they learn of the many
examples of egregious injustice and dirty tactics perpetrated by the University, an
institution we all expect to lead universities in this country in enlightened
personnel practices. Alas, the charges are all too often supported by fact after
shameful fact. Too many professional, and sometimes personal, lives are destroyed
in the process. For a single oppressed individual, the struggle seems overwhelming.
WAGE is ready to assist with information and emotional support women who have
pressed for equity. Power is in numbers and unified action. Please join us.
Thanks:
Thanks go to Valia Hirsch for phoning our members about this years dues. 91 years old, she is
the mother-in-law of Charity Hirsch and has been an enthusiastic booster of WAGE from its
first state-wide days.
Correction and Update:
Feminist Appointed Chair at UC Davis English Department (Spring 1999
Newsletter)
There were no Davis English graduate students who filed lawsuits, but at least
six
women left the English graduate program in 1996-1999, two of them filing a formal
letter of
complaint. The appointment of a woman as Department Chair followed a successful
graduate
petition drive (visit www.stange-
support.org to
read more).
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