HIS-215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Great Depression, Test Case, United Automobile Workers
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Terms: uaw women"s bureau, racine, wisconsin (case study) If we are trying to understand feminism in the us as it evolved, important to be able to contribute to this conversation. Signi cance of true union as an important arena for women collective action. 3 strands of feminism: women"s bureau/reconversion. March 1944 creation of auw women"s bureau re ected enlarged role and in uence of women in unions. Bureau supported campaign to resist sexually-discriminatory layo s. Most women did not gain access to post war jobs. Campaign did consolidate what had been informal, loosely organized local women activists. Women leaders gained a clearer understanding of the arbitrary and discriminatory character of sex-typing: shared recognition about how arbitrary and discriminatory sex-typing was. Women in the uaw advocated sex-blind treatment as a way of achieving equality in the workplace. Activists maintained pressure on union leadership to make discrimination of married women a violation of the uaw"s fair practices policy.
