{"id":738,"date":"2010-12-07T17:10:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T17:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/?p=738"},"modified":"2021-07-13T19:22:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T19:22:28","slug":"womens-resource-center-focus-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/social-life-and-fraternities\/womens-resource-center-focus-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Resource Center Focus Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

This discussion brought together four Bowdoin women who all played important roles in establishing Bowdoin\u2019s still vibrant and active Women\u2019s Resource Center. Jan Brackett \u00a0and Bridget Spaeth ’86\u00a0each served as directors for the WRC, and Linda Nelson ’83 and Laura Barnard ’83 were early members of the Women\u2019s Resource Center Collective that founded the WRC in 1980. All four women share stories of triumph and love in the face of adversity and discrimination. Their discussion offers unique insight into what it was like to be a woman at Bowdoin in the late 70’s and early 80’s – the good, the bad, and the unexpected.<\/p>\n

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This discussion brought together four Bowdoin women who all played important roles in establishing Bowdoin\u2019s still vibrant and active Women\u2019s Resource Center. Jan Brackett \u00a0and Bridget Spaeth ’86\u00a0each served as directors for the WRC, and Linda Nelson ’83 and Laura Barnard ’83 were early members of the Women\u2019s Resource Center Collective that founded the WRC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18,277,5,8],"tags":[283,387,226,282,281,247,244],"class_list":{"0":"post-738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-extracurricular-activities","7":"category-focus-group","8":"category-focus-group-womens-resource-center","9":"category-social-life-and-fraternities","10":"category-womens-resource-center","11":"tag-bridget-spaeth","12":"tag-focus-group","13":"tag-focus-group-interview","14":"tag-jan-brackett","15":"tag-laura-barnard","16":"tag-linda-nelson","17":"tag-womens-resource-center-bowdoin","18":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}