Glenbard West Theatre will present its spring drama, “Radium Girls” on April 16-18. The production is based on the true story of the female workers of the U.S. Radium Corp. in the 1920s. When ...

In 1916, dial painting was the trendy new profession for young American and Canadian women; it was artistic and well-paid. The women were paid up to three times the amount they’d be earning at other ...

In 2024, the site was cleared of overgrowth, and a radiological survey found multiple small objects coated with paint ...

It may be 2017, but working women are still facing many of the same issues that have been plaguing them for decades: sexism, unequal pay, misogyny, sexual harassment, and more. And while these issues ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the 1920s, young women worked in an Ottawa, Illinois, factory painting radioactive glow-in-the-dark numbers onto watches. They ...

It’s taken them nearly a century, but "Radium Girls” will have their story told on the big screen. A group of young women who were pioneers in the fight for workplace safety and public health are at ...

As a little girl growing up in post-World War I Germany, Joe Dunthorne’s grandmother was among the many who brushed their teeth with irradiated toothpaste. Doramad, his grandmother’s family brand of ...

Salesmen (and the press) learned that tonics labeled ”radium,” once the most expensive substance on Earth, flew off the shelves. Meanwhile, scientists scrambled to learn what the radioactive material ...

Mrs. Josie Bishop is a small, bright, sun-browned widow with four grown children. Twenty years ago she moved to California’s Mojave Desert from New Mexico, arriving with “a can of beans, a loaf of ...