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Over Eighty-five Years of Achievement
When Dean Virginia Gildersleeve, Professor Caroline Spurgeon and Rose Sidgewick sat together in 1918 and conceived the idea of a worldwide organization uniting university women, they were convinced that by fostering friendship and understanding, women graduates could help prevent another catastrophe such as the world war that had just ended. Their dream became reality the next year when university women from Great Britain, Canada and the United States met to lay the foundation for IFUW. Over eighty years later, more than 170,000 women graduates throughout the world share the same principles and vision that inspired those early leaders.
All IFUW archives from 1919-1997 are stored at the Aletta Institutue for Women's History.
Anyone wishing to access IFUW's archives should contact the Institute directly:
website: www.aletta.nu
telephone: +31(0)20 665 08 20
e-mail:
info@aletta.nu
1936 IFUW Conference, Poland |
