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Regina V. Polk Women’s Labor Leadership Conference

Whole Body, Whole-life Struggle

From: Labour in Canada Cracking Labour's Glass Ceiling

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In Chapter 6 Helena Worthen, now a retired professor from the University of Illinois Labor Education Program, discusses the Regina V. Polk Women’s Labor Leadership Conference, which she designed and ran for years. She offers a reflection of the impact of a “curriculum for women who needed to fight” inequality at home, work and in the union.

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Helena Worthen

Helena Worthen retired from the University of Illinois Labor Education Program in 2010 and moved, with her husband Joe Berry, to Berkeley, California, near her children and grandchildren. In 2015-16 she taught in the Labour Relations and Trade Unions Faculty at Ton Due Thang University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.