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...
The March 8th, 1857 strike by hundreds of women workers in the garment and textile factories in NY City is suppose to be the impetus for IWD - not the response to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire. There also was a demonstration of thousands of women workers in the needle trades on March 8,...
“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...
For women, it was unclear how they should be involved in the war effort. Many men wanted the women to keep their traditional gender roles of taking care of the household. However, the lack of male workers on the home front required women to take on different work roles. The women ...
They were, in most cases, hired by the forest workers, and portray the camps as egalitarian social systems. It is clear that the Swedish system was rather unusual internationally, and these women had a definite impact on modernizing a workspace far from cities and industries. For the women, ...
Johnson moved to Detroit to continue working for the UAW. There, she was assaulted and savagely beaten by industry goons but that never stopped her pursuits for justice. She worked for six decades on behalf of civil rights, workers’ rights and women’s equality. Johnson passed away in ...
In 1920, women made up 23.6 percent of the labor force; by 1940, this percentage had risen to 25.4. Some advances were made in working women's rights, but during the Great Depression, many female workers lost their jobs or were forced to accept severe cuts in pay. Despite the economic ...
Canada was under-prepared when war was declared in September of 1939; steep wartime production was the key to ensuring eventual victory over theAxispowers. Construction on the plant began in the early months of 1941. It took 236 days with many workers contributing long hours for the plant to...
an Italian NGO whose goal is spreading information and knowledge about endometriosis – 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 ...
In the transition to a market economy, nearly all jobs give priority to younger workers. Education affords status to any employee even if his or her background is in a different field. Privatization has brought back family farms, but they are unlikely to survive the transition to membership in...