Women at work
Whether in the home or in a workplace, women's work has long been overlooked. This gallery of photographs and paintings presents women at work, raising questions of equality, rights and work-life balance.
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Commissioned by John Baker & Co, this famous oil painting, entitled ‘The Munitions Girls’, shows women working at Kilnhurst Steelworks during the First World War. The artist was Alexander Stanhope Forbes (1857-1947). Like many other steelworks during …
Herderin met een kudde schapen in een boomgaard. De herderin staat rechts met een staf in de handen, bij haar staat een hond.
Kontroll av nylonstrumpor vid Malmö Strumpfabrik. En kvinna håller upp en strumpa mot ljuset för att undersöka kvaliteten.
Kvinna i NK-uniform gör honnör. Nordiska Kompaniet i Stockholm.
"Woman fish packer, 1940" [EP0018], 1940; This picture of a woman working in the fishing industry was on the cover of the TUC magazine Labour in January 1940.
"National Federation of Women Workers organisers, c. 1908" [T0052.jpg], c. 1908; The National Federation of Women Workers was established in 1906 to recruit women in organised trades or who were not accepted into membership of the relevant male …
Portrait of the workers of the Coma and Cros de Salto factory
Kvinna vid arbetsbänk på läder/ textilfabrik.
Group Portrait: Singer Compañía
"Woman factory worker, c 1982" [BW0231], 1982, Trades Union Congress
Lettering: Laboratorio Voluntario Pro Feriti. Sala apparecchi tutori. 49 Via Uffizi del Vicario Roma. Palazzo Centurione Roma.
De visverkoopster. Achter een stalletje op de markt maakt een vrouw vissen schoon. Op tafel liggen een krab en verschillende grote en kleine vissen (schelvis en schar), rechts een grote doorgesneden zalm en een weegschaal.
Young woman at the stove cooking.
Linnea Road Jobs 17 May 1967
After studying in Germany, Carl Trägårdh went to France in 1885. He went to the artist colony in Grez-sur-Loing for several extended periods, and was considered to be one of the Swedes of his generation who was the most closely related to the French Impre…
NL In 1968 begon ik bij Philips op de afdeling Spiraal maken, waar ook veel andere Spaanse vrouwen werkten. We moesten de draadjes oftewel spiralen die in gloeilampen zitten controleren. Je bekeek ze met een loep, want ze waren zo fijn als haren, legde ze…
Scientist examining flask of bacterial culture medium in molecular biophysics laboratory.
Women and girls on war work at E. Green & Sons, Calder Vale Road. The woman in the centre with a large hat must have been a supervisor, all the others were on the production line. Munitions work was hazardous, but it provided higher wages and more ind…
Woman putting large bearings into a mould at RHP.
Woman at work on a machine in the assembly hall at RHP.
"Women resurfacing a road 1914-1918" [T0123.jpg], 1914-1918
"Women war worker in munitions industry, 1943" [T0095.jpg], 1943; This photograph of a woman working at a grinding machine making guns and gun mountings is taken from 2 large volumes of photographs published by the Ministry of Labour and Nationa…
"Chain Maker, c. 1910" [T0039.jpg], 1910; The Trade Boards Act 1909 introduced minimum wages in certain industries. In 1910, the Chainmaking Trade Board set a rate of 2½d per hour for adult women workers which was almost double the rate paid at …
Young woman mounts, radio and TV factory in Tobo used
Monographic bibliographic item
Woman in Work at Uppsala Sidenväverier, Uppsala 1948
Anastasia Dimitrova from Pleven - the first Bulgarian teacher to be a graduate of the Upper Girl’s convent in Kalofer.
technique: oil on canvas