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First World War

A forgotten feminist pioneer: the story of Rachel Parsons

5th August 20204th August 2020 by phlgjng

In this guest blog post Henrietta Heald re-evaluates the life and work of WES’s first president, feminist and former engineer, Rachel Parsons.

Categories Guest Blogs, Historical, Individual Engineers Tags First World War, Women in Engineering, Women in STEM, Women's Engineering Society

Internationalism and the UK’s Women’s Engineering Society (WES)

23rd July 202021st April 2020 by Emily Rees Koerner

In this blog, Graeme Gooday explores the international counterparts to the UK’s Women’s Engineering Society (WES) and highlights some of WES’s international members, from the USA, Germany and further afield.

Categories Archive Material, Historical Tags First World War, Second World War, Women in Engineering, Women in STEM

Telling the story of the radium girls and their fight for justice

30th March 202017th March 2020 by Emily Rees Koerner

This guest blog by Catherine Best tells the story of the ‘radium girls’ employed in factories in World War One in the USA – their horrendous illness as a result of radium poisoning and their struggle for justice.

Categories Guest Blogs, Historical Tags First World War, Health, Women in STEM

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