History Timeline: 1984-1985

• Women's Studies Program is started at MIT
• Program Director: Ruth Perry
  Program Coordinator: Mary Wyer
• Live Performance by Girls' Night Out
• First publication of Women's Studies Around Boston
• Women's Studies Research Room Opens
• Diversity and Change: A Celebration of Women
  Reading by May Sarton, Prof. Nikki Giovanni, and NCAAA Founder Elma Lewis
• "Women's Studies in Technology and Science Education": Dr. Paul Gray, Dr. Shirley Malcom, and MIT Prof. Evelyn Fox Keller
• Talks:
  • "Women in Development: A Critical Review of the Field" Prof. Asoka Bandarage
  • "What's Happened to Women Scientists Since 1940?" Dr. Margaret Rossiter
  • "Women Writing and Society" Novelist Margaret Atwood
  • "Songs of Women's Experience" MIT Prof. Ruth Perry, Emory Prof. Amy Lang, and Berkeley Prof. Claire Kramsch
  • "Feminism and the Role of Women in the Soviet Union, Journalist and Women" Activist Tatyana Mamonova
  • "Prophesy Feminism and Witchcraft: Women Visionaries in Seventeenth Century England" Rutgers University Prof. Phyllis Mack
• Women and Computer Conference and Panel Discussion
• Film Screenings:
• "Not A Love Story"
• "Killing Us Softly"
• "Rosie the Riveter"