Feminism Unfinished

pressure to address economic injustice grew, spearheaded by organized labor and others, including women reform ...

fairness for women. She quit her Winsor School job and for the next few years traveled across New England orga ...

woman business manager a few years later, responsible for settling pay and other disputes for workers of all r ...

within which to justify their own demands. It offered them institutional resources. Paradoxically, when it f ...

Still, their experiences of wartime employment were not forgotten. Rosie lost her riveting job, but her sens ...

these new moms also became wage earners, without the benefits Wyatt enjoyed, the stresses of the “dou ...

women’s identity and were the source of some of women’s greatest pleasures—a legacy in part of the 1920s ...

what can be called the “masculine mystique,” or the valorizing of the qualities associated with masculinity and the ...

Beginning in 1943 and continuing into the early 1950s, left-liberal New Dealers and their allies in the labo ...

In 1947, Congress overrode President Harry Truman’s veto and passed the Taft-Hartley Act, which amende ...

The reforms social justice feminists sought in the 1940s and 1950s were more than just improvements on w ...

rated job skills and changed their policies to conform to the less biased rating systems put forward first by th ...

The commission would study “not just the legal status but the general status” of women, inaugurate a broad pu ...

throughout the 1950s and would culminate in confrontations over equal pay and civil rights legislation in the e ...

white women. After the animal had been killed, cut into sections, and cleaned, white women trimmed the meat ...

Caroline Davis (far left), Lillian Hatcher (standing), and William Oliver of the UAW Fair Practices Department ...

Lillian Hatcher with a group of UAW volunteers during the 1960 presidential election. Archives of Labor ...

coordination and the drafting of the commission’s final report, she turned once again to Kitty Ellickson, w ...

systems of exclusion.)^29 Nevertheless, as the new feminist movement took up the ERA mantle in the 1970s, the c ...

convention’s international norm in its own domestic equal pay legislation. In 1962, as the labor-backed equ ...