This collection documents the work of Ronnie Sandler, an activist in the tradeswomen's movement. Much of Sandler's work focused
on expanding women's access to fields where they had not traditionally been employed, such as building trades and transportation.
The bulk of the collection focuses on Sandler's efforts to organize with tradeswomen's organizations to access funds from
the Intermodal Surface Transportation and Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991, in order to train women for nontraditional jobs;
reports, contracts, proposals and other documents regarding various Compliance U.S.A. projects, a company Sandler founded
that consulted on employment and civil rights related matters for construction projects; and material related to Northeast
Women in Transportation (NEWIT) and consulting projects. The collection contains organizational papers and correspondence
related to these organizing efforts, as well as numerous manuals and reports related to women's employment; documents generated
by various tradeswomen organizations; and materiral related to tradeswomen events and conferences. For digitized material
related to all tradeswomen archives collections please consult the
Tradeswomen Archives Project .