[Radio broadcast] [sound recording]. 1942.

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[Radio broadcast] [sound recording]. 1942.

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Three radio speeches broadcast on Feb. 22, 1942, by Mary Anderson for the working women of the Allied nations. Anderson describes the changing nature of employment for women before and during World War II, the history of sex discrimination in employment, and forecasts how the employment climate for women may change after the war.

1 sound tape reel (17 min.) : analog, 7-1/2 ips ; 7 in.

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Anderson, Mary, 1872-1964

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Anderson, Director of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor for 25 years, had emigrated from Sweden at 16. She worked for 18 years as a machine operator in shoe factories, was active in the Boot and Shoe Workers Union, and organized women workers for the National Women's Trade Union League before her appointment as assistant director of the Women in Industry Service in 1918. Anderson became director in 1919 and remained in that position (the Women in Industry Service became the Wome...