Guide to the Women's Roles And Well-Being Project Records,
1986-2005.

Collection Number: 23/13/2917

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
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Compiled by:
RMC Staff
Date completed:
July 2010
EAD encoding:
RMC Staff, July 2010

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Women's Roles and Well-Being Project records, 1986-2005.
Collection Number:
23/13/2917
Creator:
New York State College of Human Ecology.
Quantity:
12.3 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Printed Materials, Research Materials
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Questionnaires and transcripts of interviews conducted during the project and reports, coding books and files concerning the project itself.
Language:
Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

In 1956, under the direction of Robin M. Williams and John Dean, 427 women were interviewed about family and non-family roles, their health activities, and attitudes on various issues. All the women lived in upstate New York. Thirty years later, Phyllis Moen and Donna Dempster McClain located and interviewed 313 of these women. In 1987 and 1988 they interviewed one daughter from each of 246 of these women. The daughters were asked about their roles and attitudes and about their relationships with their mothers. The mother and daughter pairs make up the sample for the project.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Questionnaires and transcripts of interviews conducted during the project and reports, coding books and files concerning the project itself.
SUBJECTS

Names:
New York State College of Human Ecology.
Dean, John P.(John Peebles), 1914-
Dempster-McClain, Donna.
Moen, Phyllis.
Williams, Robin Murphy.

Subjects:
Mothers and daughters--Study and teaching.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Access Restrictions:
Restricted to permission of the office of origin.
Cite As:
Women's Roles and Well-Being Project records, #23/13/2917. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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