Following a preface and a chapter tracing the rise of the women's movement, this report provides a brief overview of the Ford Foundation's ongoing funding commitment to the importance of the women's movement. The report is divided into three time periods: l973-l980, 1980-1983, and 1983 into the future. Early efforts emphasize issues of female poverty, women's economic roles, and the study and elimination of sex discrimination in educational institutions. Women's programs in the International Division, formed in l973, focuses on improving women's productive capacities and opportunities for employment and earned income, promoting sex equity in education, and understanding and reducing cultural constraints on women's social and economic participation. In l980 the Ford Foundation, by special appropriation, raised support for women's programs to $19.3 million and created the Women's Program Group which subdivided support into thematic areas of urban poverty, rural poverty and resources, human rights and social justice, governance and public policy, education and culture, and international affairs. Through its use of many exemplary program descriptions and photographs this report emphasizes the Ford Foundation belief that feminist ideas and programs should be incorporated into public policy. Future goals include encouraging future feminist generations, stabilizing networks that serve women, and maintaining clear focuses on employment and income, education and culture, and health and the family. (CBC)