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English: This category includes photos of women taken in 1916 and images of women in 1916.
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English: This category includes photos of women of the United States taken in 1916 and images of women of the United States in 1916.
Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ... [et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 310. Part of
- Overview
- Marie Curie and the petites Curies
- Advancement in aviation
- Mabel St. Clair Stobart
- “Canary girls”
- A strike against inequality
- The “Battalion of Death”
- The end of the road
- Women in Germany
- Defending Baku
Women have long played a vital role during wartime. In World War I (1914–18), however, their contributions grew dramatically. Millions of women entered the workforce to fill jobs that were traditionally held by men. In addition, tens of thousands of women served as nurses and doctors, and many held posts in the military. These wartime experiences h...
Marie Curie driving a Renault automobile converted into a mobile radiological unit, 1914. She used these vehicles, which became known as petites Curies, to bring X-ray equipment to wounded soldiers at the front during World War I.
Woman working at an airplane factory during WWI. The number of women employed in the aircraft industry was negligible prior to the war, but by 1918 women made up nearly one-fifth of the workforce in that sector.
Mabel St. Clair Stobart overcame the resistance of men who claimed that women had no place on the battlefield. She led teams of female doctors and nurses in both the First Balkan War (1912) and World War I, and she was the first woman to hold the rank of major in a national army.
French women fusing shells at a munitions factory. In Britain, female workers in ammunition plants were dubbed “canary girls” because prolonged exposure to trinitrotoluene (TNT) in the shells turned their skin yellow. More than three-quarters of munitions workers suffered some effects of TNT poisoning, and hundreds of women died from exposure to to...
Women streetcar conductors in Britain. In August 1918 female transit workers in London staged a wildcat strike for equal pay. The strike soon spread throughout England, and British officials were concerned that women in the munitions industry would join the work stoppage. The strike was finally settled when women were granted the same wartime bonus...
Russia's all-female “Battalion of Death” performed well during the June Offensive of 1917, but morale in the armed forces was collapsing. By 1918 Russia had exited World War I, and civil war had gripped the country. Maria Bochkareva, leader and guiding force of the battalion, was executed by the Bolsheviks as a counterrevolutionary in 1920.
Female streetcar conductor employed by the New York Railways Company. Thousands of women were hired by transportation companies during World War I. However, in March 1919 the New York legislature passed the Lockwood-Caulfield Act. Ostensibly written to improve working conditions for women in the transit sector, the law restricted the number of hour...
Street sweeper in Berlin during World War I. Women in Germany entered the workforce at lower rates than women in Allied countries, and women were conspicuously exempted from the Auxiliary Service Law of December 1916. That law made war-related employment mandatory for all able-bodied men aged 18–60, provided that they had not already been called in...
Armenian girl defending Baku, Azerbaijan, from the Turkish army. After the fall of Baku in September 1918, the city's Armenian population was massacred by Azerbaijani nationalists.
Oct 9, 2020 · In late 19th- and early 20th-century America, a new image of womanhood emerged that began to shape public views and understandings of women’s role in society.Identified by contemporaries as a Gibson Girl, a suffragist, a Progressive reformer, a bohemian feminist, a college girl, a bicyclist, a flapper, a working-class militant, or a Hollywood ...
Feb 26, 2019 · Sandra Day O'Connor, Sally Ride. July 7, 1981: Sandra Day O’Connor is sworn in by President Ronald Reagan as the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. She retires in 2006, after ...
