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The Iowa Stater
Dec. 15, 1995

On the record

As a scientist with the National Institute of Health, Fann Harding sued her employer in the early 1970s for gender discrimination. She helped found several organizations for women in science and other professions and rose to an administrative post at the NIH, along the way documenting discrimination suits spanning 20 years.

Harding and dozens of others, with or without direct ties to Iowa State, have donated papers and notes to the Archives of Women in Science and Engineering, a special collection in the ISU Library.

The archives document the history of women in engineering and the physical, earth, computational and life sciences (though not medicine). They include personal records as well as records of women's science and engineering organizations.

Alumni who have records to donate or who know women scientists whose papers would be an asset to the archives, are asked to contact Tanya Zanish, curator of the Archives of Women in Science and Engineering, Special Collections, 403 Parks Library, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, (515) 294-6648, e-mail: tzanish@iastate.edu.

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