Photo essayDrawn from the floorThree units where the women would talk and would not be photographed. The story is drawn instead: composite people, checked facts.
Photo essayWhat the supervisor sawA first-line manager on the six months after his line went from all-male to a third women, written in his own words.
Photo essayThe first fifty women on the floorA dyeing unit went from four women across three shifts to fifty-one in two years. Nothing about the machines changed.
Photo essayWhat changed when the shift ended at nineMoving the shift forward cost the plant eleven minutes of line time a day. It kept nineteen of the twenty-three women who had given notice.
Photo essayA committee that finally had something to doAn internal committee that had met twice in four years, and the six months after somebody put a name and a number on the notice board.