Developments in education, employment, and the courts concerning the status of women are covered in these two newsletter issues. In addition to news items, the article "United Nations World Conference on Women, 1985: Some Random Reflections on the Nairobi Conference" by Bernice Sandler is included. The article provides an overview of the overall conference and workshops and considers implications for the future of women's activities. News topics include the following: women's education; women faculty; developments in other countries affecting women's education and employment; sexual harassment and rape on campus; contracts; faculty salaries; nontraditional careers for women; court litigation; sex discrimination; rural women; minority women; black women and feminism, disabled women, women's studies programs; women's sports; the climate for women faculty, administrators, and graduate students; textbook bias against women, women in land-grant colleges, financial aid for women students, the aftermath of federal budget cuts in sex equity programs, working women in the United States, women's earnings, and resource materials on women's education and employment. (SW)