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Multiple stories of Polish immigrant families overview life in Back of the Yards, with family members holding jobs in the Peer Food plant, Swift lard refinery, and elsewhere in the Yards.
From the impoverished and politically oppressed small towns of Eastern Europe, as both Elias Tobenkin (1909) and Viola Paradise (1913) related, families sent their daughters to work in Chicago. With luck they would land a husband.
Significant changes in the lives of working women occurred in the 1920s. World War I had temporarily allowed women to enter into industries such as chemical, automobile, and iron and steel manufacturing, which were once deemed inappropriate work for women. [ 87 ]
1 lip 2021 · This article uses Chicago as a case study to explore how Progressive Era women competed and collaborated to reform vocational education for girls, and how female students responded to new school programs designed to prepare them for work both in and outside the home.
2 kwi 2009 · The entirely women‐run world’s fairs, in miniature, staged annually in Chicago in the 1920s belie this interpretation and evince women’s determination to utilize the format of the world’s fair to reshape public opinion about women’s roles.
The four women below are just a few of the many women who lived and worked at Hull House who made lasting contributions to the community, to Chicago, and to the world. Illustrations by Kerry Couch and Casey Stockdon
By 1920, the majority of Chicago's clerical workers were U.S.-born white females of foreign or mixed parentage and under the age of 24. Companies employing these clerical workers were challenged to create separate occupational hierarchies and in some cases even separate workspaces for men and women.
