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WOMEN employeesCIVIL rightsWORLD War ISOCIAL justiceThis article examines how a group of Black and White YWCA staff members seized the opportunities of World War I to advance a racial justice agenda through Young Women's Christian Association programs for working women. First,...
Working memory, women and work in world war IIdoi:10.1080/09612025.2019.1577332Bruley, SueTaylor and Francis GroupWomen s History Review
Around 400 women died from overexposure to TNT during World War One. Other hazards were more obvious and minor problems were common.' Women working in the munitions came to be called ‘Munitionettes’; they made up a large proportion of women working in that specific industry. To the extent...
摘要: Reviews two books on women workers. 'Women Workers in the Second World War,' by Penny Summerfield; 'From Working Girl to Working Mother: The Female Labor Force in the United States, 1820-1980,' by Lynn Y. Weiner.年份: 1986 ...
Focussing upon one group of workers, Nicole Robertson deals with the Association for Women's Clerks and Secretaries (AWCS), which emerged in 1912 from earlier roots to become an all-female trade union representing lower middle-class female clerks. Concentrating upon the First World War and the ...
In this article, we investigate the effects of economic conditions, families, education, and gender ideologies on the labor force participation rates of women in eleven age groups in 117 countries. We find that participation rates of young and older women are partly explained by sector sizes and...
were working in industry, agriculture and the women’s services. The women’s auxiliary services were established at the outset of the war: the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) in 1938, and the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) in 1939. ...
Famous Women in World War 2 Famous women in WW2helped lead the French Resistance, nurse soldiers to health, and care forprisoners of war. Nancy Wake Nancy Wake Known as "The White Mouse," Nancy Wake is one of the famous women in WW2. She helped lead the French Resistance to Nazi occupa...
The main idea behind this strategy was freeing the men from the need to be employed in service jobs behind the front lines while giving women the illusion they were part of the armed forces. According to Prof. Joanna Burke (Women and the Military during World War One, BBC), "in World ...