Women at work

Whether in the home or in a workplace, women's work has long been overlooked. This gallery of photographs and paintings presents women at work, raising questions of equality, rights and work-life balance.

Comhroinn an gailearaí seo

Kontroll av nylonstrumpor vid Malmö Strumpfabrik. En kvinna håller upp en strumpa mot ljuset för att undersöka kvaliteten.

Liljeroth, Erik

'The Munitions Girls' oil painting, England, 1918

Science Museum, London

Women resurfacing a road 1914-1918

Katalanische Schneiderstube

Scientist examines bacterial culture flask

Mol. Biophysics, Oxford Univ.

Aan het werk bij Philips

Kvinna vid arbetsbänk på läder/ textilfabrik.

Svenska Föreningen för Ljuskultur

Women war worker in munitions industry, 1943

Artificial limb factory in Rome: six women working at benches, one using a sewing machine and one stitching the back of a full-length leg. Photograph, 1914/1918.

Studio Leonardi, Rome.

Kvinna i NK-uniform gör honnör. Nordiska Kompaniet i Stockholm.

Holmén, Erik (Photographer)

Groepsfoto van genodigden in een grote tent tijdens een toespraak van minister Hedy d'Ancona ter gelegenheid van de officiele opening van het Comeniusmuseum aan de Kloosterstraat

Fotografie | Bandfabrik, Binderei

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A woman separing chaff | Donna separa la pula

Giorgio Giglioli

drawing (pen and ink wash and watercolour): "Will You Buy My Crabs"

by SANDBY/Paul

Women and girls on war work at E. Green & Sons, Calder Vale Road. The woman in the centre with a large hat must have been a supervisor, all the others were on the production line. Munitions work was hazardous, but it...