• Entry type: Organisation
  • Entry ID: AWE0213

Graduate Women Victoria Inc.

  • Previous name Victorian Women Graduates' Association
    Previous name Victorian University Women Graduates' Association
    Previous name Australian Federation of University Women - Victoria Inc.
(From 1922 – )
  • Occupation Social support organisation, University club/society, Women‚Äôs advocacy

Summary

Established in 1922 to co-ordinate social, intellectual and fund-raising activities, the Victorian Women Graduates’ Association was formed as a forum through which University women could express their views and aimed to promote women’s independent research. By 1928, membership of the Association had reached 300. An Endowment Fund was established to assist women students, and the Association held several conferences.

In 2009, in line with resolutions of the affiliated National body, the organisation changed its name to Graduate Women Victoria, Inc.

Archival resources

  • State Library of Victoria
    • Records, ca. 1920-1979 [manuscript]
  • The University of Melbourne Archives
    • Records of the Australian Federation of University Women - Victoria
    • Records of the Australian Federation of University Women - Victoria
    • Records of the Australian Federation of University Women, Victoria
    • Records of the Australian Federation of University Women, Victoria
    • Records of the Australian Federation of University Women, Victoria
    • Records of the Australian Federation of University Women - Victoria
    • Records of the Australian Federation of University Women - Victoria
    • Records of the Australian Federation of University Women - Victoria
    • Records of the Victorian Women Graduates' Association
    • Records of the Victorian Women Graduates' Association
    • Records of the Victorian Women Graduates' Association
    • Records of the Victorian Women Graduates' Association
    • Records of the Victorian Women Graduates' Association, Mildura Branch

Published resources

  • Book
    • Degrees of liberation : a short history of women in the University of Melbourne, Kelly, Farley, 1985
    • Jessie Webb, a memoir, Ridley, Ronald T, 1994
  • Book Section
    • Garden Parties and Politics : The Victorian Women's Graduate Association 1920-1945, Ruljancich, Sally, 2000
  • Resource

Related entries


  • Awardee
    • Freeman, Mavis Louisa (1907 - 1992)
  • Related Women
    • a'Beckett, Ada Mary (1872 - 1948)
  • Affiliated
    • Australian Federation of Graduate Women Inc. (1922 - )
  • Subordinate
    • Victorian Women Graduates' Association, Geelong Branch
    • Victorian Women Graduates' Association, Mildura Branch (1949 - 1979)
  • President
    • Webb, Jessie Stobo Watson (1880 - 1944)
  • Member
    • Fitzpatrick, Kathleen Elizabeth (1905 - 1990)
    • Moffatt, Marjorie (Ann) (1941 - )
    • Ferber, Helen Layton (1919 - 2013)
    • Sweet, Georgina (1875 - 1946)
  • Honorary Secretary
    • Sherrard, Kathleen Margaret Maria (1898 - 1975)

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