Not allowed to work in commercial hairdressers, Dublin women set up shop in their own front rooms. "They’d have the equipment, the hood dryers, the chairs, the sink,” says Dublin City Council ...
Archive demonstrating how a boom in jobs available for women in ... An archive clip that shows some of the changes to women's rights during the 20th century, for example it wasn't until 1928 ...
Working in railways, mines, and mills caused thousands of deaths in the early 20th century and before. Photos show the ...
During the 20th century, the share of women in the American ... and the right to work part time — women's share of jobs continued to rise. In 1991, female participation in the US workforce ...
In the Mine Wars that erupted in southern West Virginia over the first two decades of the 20th century ... it possible for the miner to do his job. Women prepared the food that the miners brought ...
"Phillips-Cunningham's book is a tremendous achievement. Well-written, exhaustively researched, and provocatively framed, it will recast historical understandings of the history of US education, the ...
There she first emphasized the complicated leadership role women have played in American Protestantism. By the first half of the 20th century, her research showed, “fundamentalists had adopted the ...
Gemma Cairney finds out how women have campaigned for sexual equality in Britain. One hundred years ago women with illegitimate children could be placed in a mental institution. Attitudes towards ...