A century of women at work – in pictures
Dress Like A Woman, with a foreword by Roxane Gay and introduction by Vanessa Friedman, features more than 300 pictures showing women at work across the world – and examines their evolving roles, from domestic servants to astronauts
Roxane Gay on clothes in the workplace: ‘I have never been good at dressing like a woman’
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Four young Hopi women grind grain in Arizona, around 1906
Photograph: Edward S Curtis/Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Edward S. Curtis Collection
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Maids at a house in Byfield, Northamptonshire, England, sometime between 1896 and 1920
Photograph: Arcaid Ltd/Corbis/Getty Images
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Ambulance surgeons Doctors Cornelia Meaders and Alice Lewis at work in New York City in 1915
Photograph: Bettmann Archive
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Women soldering radio chassis at Belmont Radio, US, in 1922
Photograph: Chicago History Museum/Getty Images
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Women of the Forestry Commission section of the Women’s Land Army carry logs on their shoulders ready to be stacked at Culford Camp, near Bury St Edmunds, England, in December 1941
Photograph: M McNeill/Getty Images
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Chippers using riveting guns at the Marinship Corporation in California, 1942
Photograph: Corbis/Getty Images
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Housekeeps at a resort in Jamaica in the 1950s
Photograph: Mara Vivat/Corbis/Getty Images
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An employee at a BP petrol station in Germany refueling a car in 1961
Photograph: ullstein bild/Getty Images
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Sislin Fay Allen, the first black woman to join London’s Metropolitan police, 15th February 1968, wearing a cape designed by Norman Hartnell
Photograph: William Vanderson/Getty Images
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Employees at McDonald’s in Southfield, Michigan, in 1978
Photograph: Barbara Alper/Getty Images
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An employee at work in a textile factory, 2011, in Tangier, Morocco
Photograph: Thomas Koehler/Photothek via Getty Images
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Afghanistan’s first female pilot, Niloofar Rahmani, 23, sits in a fixed-wing Afghan air force aviator aircraft in Kabul in 2015
Photograph: Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images
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Astronaut Peggy Whitson during a spacewalk from the International Space Station in 2017
Photograph: NASA
