despite the protests of Air Officer Commanding Balloon Command and his WAAF Staff Officer at the time, who expressed doubts whether women would have the physical strength and stamina for the task. Nevertheless in April 1941 twenty balloon fabric workers, all volunteers, underwent...
During WW2 the presence of men at home was to a bare minimum. The impact this had on women was felt throughout the nation. How women would be looked at would be changed forever. They had to uphold various positions that were usually held by men and reevaluate their roles as homemakers...
“The Canadian Women Workers Monument” shows the factories during ww2 where the women built the equipment to win the war effort. On the other side of the sculpture the victory of the allies is represented, suggesting that the victory was conditional on the industry at home. The work is loca...
There also was a demonstration of thousands of women workers in the needle trades on March 8, 1908, calling for child labor protection and women's suffrage. This too was suppose to have inspired the event. But it was not until August 1910, at a meeting of the Women's Socialist ...
Since there was an ever-present fear of a Nazi invasion, GECO workers took an oath of secrecy mandated by the Canadian government. They presented identification at the beginning of each workday, and their names and identification numbers were sewn into their uniforms. To raise morale during suc...
during that time period. The women workers were often called “Rosies”. Raya was determined that these women should be honored for their patriotism during the war. Now, 18, Raya, is trying to convince people to erect a monument to the Rosies. The design of the monument, to be located ...
"During the 1920s there was a rise in the average size of business units. Newer and larger enterprises began to invest in human resource departments that designed schemes, which aimed principally to reduce the turnover of skilled male workers. Even before the depression, a distinguishing ...
Johnson was the founder and organizer of the Women’s Auxiliary and the more militant Women’s Emergency Brigade. It was the Emergency Brigade that blocked local police and industry goons from gaining entry to the plants holding the striking workers, and it was the auxiliary that provided the ...
– for women, their relatives, healthcare workers, and various institutions. her position in the executive board gave her the opportunity to work on projects and initiatives that made a great difference in raising awareness about endometriosis. ...
When the Russian Revolution erupted in 1917, she led a demonstration of armed workers in Moscow. Following the Revolution, she became a politician and stateswoman amongst the Soviet apparatus. She was infamously one of the organizers of the Red Terror in the Crimea against former soldiers of the...