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volunteers Despite the generosity of industry sponsors Women In Motion has always relied heavily upon the willingness of the women involved to volunteer a great deal their time for free; from the volunteers who made up the Management Committees of WIFT(victoria) over the years, to the women who came and spoke. "...they thought it was worth while and they wanted to make a contribution..." (Marsha Emerman 2000) Whilst in later years participants were given small honorariums to cover parking or childcare, compared to the fees these professionals command in their working lives, their time is essentially volunteered. The chance to discuss their careers and inspire younger generations is the motivation given by many of the women involved in the project over the years for the commitment of time and energy, "I think teaching and training, and speaking you always get something out of it for yourself, the strongest of course is just being able to articulate and think on a deeper level about how your interests and directions are and to actually articulate that back to an audience of, of young people it's, I know that the speakers were very interested and very involved in that, and they came back year after year as well to, so be involved so it was something, I think, that they got a lot out of as well." (Sue Maslin 2000) |
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