Executive Board Nominates WSLC Women’s Committee
Representative
WPEA
Staff Rep, Kathleen Oest (left), was recently
nominated to represent WPEA on the Washington State Labor
Council’s Women’s Committee. She is shown above with
legendary women’s rights and racial justice activist,
Angela Davis.
The WSLC Women’s Committee maintains an interest in issues
of special concern to working women, encourages
rank-and-file union women to seek and obtain leadership
roles within their unions, and raises funds for leadership
training scholarships for rank-and-file union women. It
sponsors workshops and conferences related to these issues.
Membership is not limited to women. This committee meets
quarterly.
Your Story Should Be Part Of History
Mother's Day was created by social activist
Julia Ward Howe after the American Civil War as a powerful
grassroots effort to unite women against war. So what better
day could there be to celebrate women's strength?
Join thousands of American women by sharing what makes you
strong.
Legal Momentum, the nation's oldest
organization of legal advocates for women, is launching,
Women: A Celebration of Strength, a brand new book
chronicling the history of the women's rights.
We want you to be a part of that
history. We have launched a companion web site,
CelebrationOfStrength.org, that
will be featuring the largest online collection of women's
stories in history.
Visit
CelebrationOfStrength.org right
now, share your story, and become a part of that history.
CelebrationOfStrength.org features
the never ending story of women – women of all ages, races,
cultures and backgrounds. Women's history isn't static and
history is not made only by the famous. We want to
include inspiring women who seem to have mastered it all,
women with unique stories to share. These shared
stories help build the momentum we need to increase
awareness around the issues that matter to all women – the
issues that Legal Momentum works on each day - from equal
pay and equal work to child care for all our families.
It's time to do more than sit back and watch
somebody else write our history. Visit this new site right
now,
share your story, and become a part of that history.
Individually we may sometimes feel ordinary, but
together we can build something extraordinary.
The Northwest Women's History Project is
pleased to announce the release of a new, technically
updated DVD version of its 1981production Good Work Sister!
Women Shipyard Workers of World War II: An Oral History.
This
20 minute media production tells the stories of women who
went to work in the shipyards of Portland, Oregon, and
Vancouver, Washington, between 1942-45. These women entered
a world that had previously been closed to them, learned
trades that had been exclusively male, coped with the double
day of shipyard and domestic work, dealt with the attitudes
of male workers, were provided with 24-hour daycare for
their children, and were summarily laid off at the end of
the war.
Good Work Sister! was produced by the Northwest Women's
History Project, a grassroots group of women who interviewed
former shipyard workers and worked collectively for over two
years to create the show.
To order the DVD or get more information about the Northwest
Women's History Project:
www.goodworksister.org or 1-866-574-7837 toll free
(from Sandy Polishuk, Independent scholar and PNLHA member.)
See Results of
Working Woman Survey
In 2006, the President Proclaimed
March
Women's
History Month
A History of International Women's Day
Born at
a time of great social turbulence and
crisis, IWD inherited a tradition of
protest and political activism. In the
years before 1910, from the turn of the
20th century, women in industrially
developing countries were entering paid
work in some numbers.
Their jobs were sex segregated, mainly
in textiles, manufacturing and domestic
services where conditions were wretched
and wages worse than depressed. Trade
unions were developing and industrial
disputes broke out, including among
sections of non-unionized women workers.
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Note: We would have listed
a link to the Women's Center for the Republican Party, but
have been unable to find any such thing, nationally or at
the state level. If you know the of a link, please contact
us.
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