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Women’s Congress of the World’s Columbian Exposition,
10
,
125
Women’s Co-operative Guild,
9
,
26–27
,
74
,
90
,
104
,
106–7
,
130
,
145
,
149–50
,
161
,
163
,
165
,
175
,
188
,
213–14
,
217
,
238
Women’s Economic Council,
44
Women’s Exchange,
150
Women’s Freedom League,
33
Women’s Industrial Council,
9
,
33
,
158
,
196
Women’s Institute,
162
Women’s Labour Exchange,
172
Women’s Labour League,
9
,
104–7
,
130
,
145
,
161
,
165
,
188
Women’s Land Army,
162
Women’s Legislative Congress,
119
Women’s Local Government Society,
7
,
31
,
33
,
105
Women’s Municipal League of Boston,
67
Women’s Political Association,
99
Women’s Protective and Provident League,
172
Women’s Social and Political Union,
15
,
43
Women’s Temperance Association,
65
Women’s Trade Union League,
9
,
11
,
51
,
109
,
131
,
157–58
,
172
,
174,
176–77
,
179
,
181
,
184
,
187
,
191
,
200
,
206
Women in Trade Unions
(Drake),
188
,
205
,
221–22
Woolf, Virginia,
26
,
217
Word
,
14
,
60
work,
171–92
passim
arts and crafts,
197
,
202
blacks,
176–77
,
190
,
195
conflicting views on,
192
critiques of (1920s),
208
delusional desire for,
193
and family,
177–78
,
194–95
insistence upon,
194
male vs female attitudes on,
226
marriage as escape from,
182–83
overwork,
175
restrict hours of,
174
,
178–79
,
190–91
higher productivity,
205
as self-actualization,
223
strikes,
181–82
,
185
sweat,
19–20
,
110
,
156–58
,
173–74
,
179–81
total critique of,
201
undermines gender roles,
195
unemployment,
189
,
191
unionism,
172–73
,
176
,
179
,
184–85
,
187–88
,
191
white collar jobs,
190
See also
wages
Workers’ Birth Control Group,
99–100
Workers’ Suffrage Federation,
10
Working Girls’ Home Association,
25
Working Life of Women in the
Seventeenth Century
(Clark),
196
Working Women’s Society,
154
,
156
Working Women’s Union,
17
World’s Congress of Representative Women,
11
Wright, Helena,
98
Yarros, Victor,
61
The Yellow Wallpaper
(Gilman),
52
Yezierska, Anzia,
25
,
178
Zetkin, Clara,
138
Zola, Emile,
182

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