The Radium Girls case exposed how a celebrated scientific wonder became a devastating workplace poison. Their suffering ...
There is something undeniably powerful about young artists taking ownership of a story, and with Radium Girls by D.W. Gregory ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...