ABSTRACT

Most campuses do not have faculty clubs, but UC-Berkeley has two. One is named The Faculty Club, the other the Women's Faculty Club (WFC). The WFC was conceived in 1919 as a reaction to the exclusion of women from The Faculty Club. By April, women on campus who taught, either within regular or temporary positions, began to organize themselves as the Berkeley Faculty Women's Group, later the Women's Faculty Group (WFG). Betty received a letter from Kadish at the end of April confirming her agreement to serve and suggesting the Policy CSAW concern itself with recruitment and advancement of women faculty, and admission of women to graduate school. The letter then offered the subcommittee carte blanche by encouraging it to adopt its own priorities and concerns. Betty telephoned the VCAA's office the next morning, asking for information about the relative advancement, including speed, of women versus men at UC-Berkeley.