Also:
One reason we formed regional organizations, way back when, was accessibility: we wanted the meetings to be financially accessible to women who couldn't afford to travel cross-country and
stay in expensive lodgings, and we wanted to encourage and support both graduate students and undergrads who would find the divisional meetings more socially/professionally accessible that a larger national conference. In the midwest it has been common for
faculty and graduate students to organize rides and provide free housing so that undergrads, grads and those without substantial employment could be engaged as participants and presenters. That kind of access has been an important dimension of the work and
mission of SWIP, in some of our manifestations. I believe that in our present circumstances, nationally, with so many of us holding non-tenure jobs with low pay and uncertain future, travel across the continent is, if anything, even more problematic for even
more of us.
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