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The Coal Employment Project (CEP) was a non-profit women's organization in the United States from 1977–1996 with the goal of women gaining employment as miners. With local support groups in both the eastern and western coalfields, CEP also advocated for women on issues such as sexual harassment, mine safety, equal access to training and promotions, parental leave, and wages.
Anita Cherry was an American practical nurse and coal miner. She and Diana Baldwin, hired as miners in 1973, are believed to have been the first women to work in an underground coal mine in the United States. They were the first female members of United Mine Workers of America to work inside a mine. [1] [2] [3]
The Indian Mining Act (1923) discouraged the sending of women down coal mines; it was seen as dangerous and unfit work for women. [1] The mining regulations of 1929 resulted in the already low paid women being employed in less numbers and with less pay. [1] They were completely prohibited from mines in 1937. [1]
After more than a thousand of its workers went to fight Russia's invasion, a coal mining enterprise in eastern Ukraine suffered a huge staff shortage. "I took this job because the war started and ...
Betty Jean Hall, an Appalachian attorney and federal administrative judge who paved the way for women to enter the coal mining workforce, has died. Hall died Friday in Cary, N.C., where she had ...
In 1973, Baldwin (aged 29) decided that she needed a better-paying job to support her family. She applied for a job at a coal mine operated by the Beth-Elkhorn Coal Company in Jenkins, Kentucky and was hired. Soon after, she was brought to national attention as a woman coal miner. Walter Cronkite did a story on Baldwin in 1973.
Lawyers for women who claim they’ve been sexually harassed while working for global mining giants BHP and Rio Tinto say they’ve been inundated with emails since filing two class action cases ...
At the beginning of the 19th century methods of coal extraction were primitive and the workforce, men, women and children, laboured in dangerous conditions. In 1841 about 216,000 people were employed in the mines. Women and children worked underground for 11 or 12 hours a day for lower wages than men. [1]