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Chicago Foundation for Women (CFW) is a nonprofit grantmaking organization that focuses on creating opportunities and resources for women in the Chicago area. [1] Many Chicago based organizations such as South Side Giving Circle and LBTQ Giving Council further help women that face violence, poverty, and discrimination using the resources from CFW. [2]
The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), whose members were employed in the women's clothing industry, was once one of the largest labor unions in the United States, one of the first US unions to have a primarily female membership, and a key player in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s.
The 1910 Chicago garment workers' strike, also known as the Hart, Schaffner and Marx (HSM) strike, was a labor strike established and led by women in which diverse workers in the garment industry showed their capability to unify across ethnic boundaries in response to an industry's low wages, unrealistic production demands, and poor working conditions.
Hamilton said that last year, 90 women in the area were killed by gun violence and nearly 500 more were shot. For those in the She Ro program, the community program is a step forward.
The Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) (1903–1950) was a U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women to support the efforts of women to organize labor unions and to eliminate sweatshop conditions.
Joyce Hannah Dannen Miller (June 19, 1928 – June 30, 2012) was an advocate for women in the labor movement, and a founding member of the Coalition of Labor Union Women. [1] A vice-president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America , she was the first woman elected to the executive board of the American Federation of Labor – Congress ...
The Fortnightly of Chicago is a woman's club founded in Chicago in 1873 by Kate Newell Doggett. [1] It is the oldest women's association in Chicago. [2]Kate Newell Doggett served as the first president from 1873 through 1879.
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