The Matchstick Girls

PATREON EXCLUSIVE BONUS CONTENT FOR
SEASON 3 : EPISODE 44
THE RADIUM GIRLS
NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This is a bonus content episode available exclusively on Patreon.

To accompany episode 44 about The Radium Girls, I am going to tell you about another landmark story of women banning together to fight for workplace rights.

This is the story of the matchstick girls.

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1920s office

Americanhistoryusa.com

Women working at the U.S. Capitol switchboard, Washington, D.C

Theguardian.com

women at work in a Rowntree’s factory in York, 1929

Theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/feb/05/the-1920s-young-women-took-the-struggle-for-freedom-into-their-personal-live

Women in a factory

Mediakron.bc.edu

Married Women Gainfully Employed, 1920

Slate.com

• Episode Sources

  ARTICLES

  50 most common jobs held by women 100 years ago

  Vintage Infographics: Where Women Worked in 1920

  Working and Voting -- Women in the 1920s

  Occupations of Women in the Labor Force Since 1920