The Virginia Allan papers include a variety of materials created and collected by Virginia R. Allan. The papers have been arranged in one series RESEARCH FILES and one sub-series of newspaper clippings. The RESEARCH FILES series includes information pertaining to women’s issues including abortion, child care, education, employment, equal rights, court proceedings and legal research, activism, poverty, publications, speeches and speech materials, and newspaper clippings. Also included are materials related to various women’s and equal rights organization that Allan served: Citizen’s Advisory on the Status of Women, Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, Governor’s Commission on the Status of Women, Intercollegiate Association of Women Students, Inter-American Commission of Women, and the National Federation of Business and Professional Women.