Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech
Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries (0434)Kat Zinn, Student Assistant, and Kira Dietz, Archivist
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The collection is open for research.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Records of Women and Gender in International Development, RG 35/01/01b, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
The Mary Rojas/Women in World Development records were donated to Special Collections and University Archives in 2015.
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Records of Women and Gender in International Development, Subgroup I: Records of Mary Rojas was completed in March 2023. Additional subgroups will be processed as received.
This record group contains materials received by Special Collections and University Archives relating to the Women and Gender in International Development at Virginia Tech. This includes records documenting programs leading up to the current program, especially Women in World Development.
The record group is organized in sub-groups by creator/collector.
See also the vertical file for Women and Gender in International Development .
The guide to the Records of Women and Gender in International Development by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).
This record group contains materials created and collected by Mary Hill Rojas in her role as director of the Women in World Development (WID) (later Women in Development and Women and Gender in International Development) program at Virginia Tech. Included are documents that led to the creation of WID, government and VPI publications and reports, newsletters and pamphlets relating to women in agriculture and development, a DVD of an interview, and professional documents from Rojas.
This sub-group is in the original order it was received from the creator.