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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: LOIS HERRadmin2020-02-21T14:32:24-05:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Lois Herr

“We Need to Have a Seat at the Table.”

Author, Educator, Corporate Executive, Politician. Candidate for U.S. Congress. Founder of the Women’s Rights Committee at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Naperville, IL (1970). Founding Member of The AT&T Alliance for Women (1971). Member of NOW’s AT&T Task Force (1971 –1973). The Women’s Alliance in Lancaster, PA. 

Interviewed by Mary Jean Collins, VFA Historian, July 2019

Photo 1. Lois at AT&T. Photo 2. Mary Jean Collins front and center on the cover of Lois’s book. Photo 3. Spending the night at Chelsea Tandem, a telephone switch. Lois and her union crew doing a major cutover to Direct Inward Dialing. Photo 4. On the campaign trail, 2010.

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More About Lois:

  • Lois’s website
  • Lois Herr Papers Hagley Museum and Library
  • A Unique Competence: A Study of Equal Employment Opportunity in the Bell System
  • Veteran Feminists of America Events
    • Equal Pay and Job Opportunities: Celebrating 40 Years of Title VII, Newton, MA, May 1, 2004
      • Lois Herr’s remarks 
      • Lois Herr, Moderator; speakers Suzanne Butler, Christiane Joost-Gaugier, Lorena Weeks and Lois Pines
    • “Empowering Women: A Tale Of Two Generations” Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI, September 15, 2012
      • Lois introduces the panel, Bernell Hooker, Anne Ladky, Mary Anne Sedey and Sheila Tobias
    • “Sharing Our Stories” Duke University Durham, NC March 31, 2017 
      • Panel:  Employment Activism
        • Feminist Activists: Noreen Connell, Lois Herr, Anne Ladky, Kathy Patrick
        • Historians:  Joey Fink, Nancy MacLean, Marcia Walker-McWilliams
  • Wikipedia
  • Cited in Barbara Love’s Book – Feminists Who Changed America – page 211

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