Dreamers of a New Day (61 page)

Women’s Congress of the World’s Columbian Exposition,
10
,
125

Women’s Co-operative Guild,
9
,
26–27
,
74
,
90
,
104
,
106–7
,
130
,
145
,
149–50
,
161
,
163
,
165
,
175
,
188
,
213–14
,
217
,
238

Women’s Economic Council,
44

Women’s Exchange,
150

Women’s Freedom League,
33

Women’s Industrial Council,
9
,
33
,
158
,
196

Women’s Institute,
162

Women’s Labour Exchange,
172

Women’s Labour League,
9
,
104–7
,
130
,
145
,
161
,
165
,
188

Women’s Land Army,
162

Women’s Legislative Congress,
119

Women’s Local Government Society,
7
,
31
,
33
,
105

Women’s Municipal League of Boston,
67

Women’s Political Association,
99

Women’s Protective and Provident League,
172

Women’s Social and Political Union,
15
,
43

Women’s Temperance Association,
65

Women’s Trade Union League,
9
,
11
,
51
,
109
,
131
,
157–58
,
172
,
174,
176–77
,
179
,
181
,
184
,
187
,
191
,
200
,
206

Women in Trade Unions
(Drake),
188
,
205
,
221–22

Woolf, Virginia,
26
,
217

Word
,
14
,
60

work,
171–92
passim

arts and crafts,
197
,
202

blacks,
176–77
,
190
,
195

conflicting views on,
192

critiques of (1920s),
208

delusional desire for,
193

and family,
177–78
,
194–95

insistence upon,
194

male vs female attitudes on,
226

marriage as escape from,
182–83

overwork,
175

restrict hours of,
174
,
178–79
,
190–91

higher productivity,
205

as self-actualization,
223

strikes,
181–82
,
185

sweat,
19–20
,
110
,
156–58
,
173–74
,
179–81

total critique of,
201

undermines gender roles,
195

unemployment,
189
,
191

unionism,
172–73
,
176
,
179
,
184–85
,
187–88
,
191

white collar jobs,
190

See also
wages

Workers’ Birth Control Group,
99–100

Workers’ Suffrage Federation,
10

Working Girls’ Home Association,
25

Working Life of Women in the

Seventeenth Century
(Clark),
196

Working Women’s Society,
154
,
156

Working Women’s Union,
17

World’s Congress of Representative Women,
11

Wright, Helena,
98

Yarros, Victor,
61

The Yellow Wallpaper
(Gilman),
52

Yezierska, Anzia,
25
,
178

Zetkin, Clara,
138

Zola, Emile,
182