Anne Fausto-Sterling papers (MS.1UF.F1)

The folder titles are virtually all Anne Fausto-Sterling's. Each series is arranged in rough chronological order and includes correspondence, reports, proposals, articles, etc. The series containing committee records often also include related material collected by Fausto-Sterling, sometimes after her service on the committee ended.

The papers document Brown University's establishment of an affirmative action program for faculty hiring and promotion under the conditions laid out in the consent decree. Although the consent decree was concerned primarily with sex discrimination, issues of minority recruitment and hiring are also covered in the records. This collection also provides information about the early work of the Committee on Women Faculty (1971-1977), the status of women faculty on campus, early courses in women's studies, and women and minorities in science at Brown.