These two proposals were presented and passed at the Membership Meeting, Simmons, NWSA 2000. We appreciate the support of the Aging Caucus, the Women of Color Caucus, the Task Force on Discrimination , the Disability Caucus, the Women's Spirituality Task Force, the Feminism and Activism Interest Group and Women's Center Caucus in getting the petitions circulated and building the support to get these through. Childcare arrangements would be part of the normal conference arrangements. Between now and the next conference, availability research to begin immediately.
Funding is clearly a dominant issue, and remains to be determined.
Numerous possibilities exist, but must be researched and determined, probably by the childcare Committee to be established. Between now and the 2001 NWSA Conference, with preliminary research into appropriate speakers to begin immediately. In forwarding this resolution, we note that motherhood as the dominant role for women worldwide required the women's movement to focus its earlier energies on freeing women, both conceptually and practically, from the obligations and restrictions of that role. Given the magnitude of those realities, NWSA attention to the topic seems necessary. This second resolution was passed with the friendly amendments that no individual will be designated in charge or get a salary, and that the plenary be mandated for some time within three to five years, to be organized by the regional planning committee.