Event ID # 91005
Date:
Thursday, November 19, 2009
 Time:
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Event:

Miss Filene Goes to Washington and Women Get the Vote
Host:

Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University
Location:

(Waltham, MA)   Google Map
515 South Street, Waltham, MA
Contact:
Rosa Di Virgilio Taormina		 Phone:
Email:
taormina@brandeis.edu
Website:
http://go.brandeis.edu/wsrc
Price:
Free
Full details:
Catherine Filene was a new college graduate eager to be on her own when she arrived in the nation's capitol in 1918 to take a wartime job in the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor.  There she would publish Careers for Women (1920), which encouraged women's participation in politics and the world of work.