Bern Conference Prohibits Night Work for Women
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Diplomacy, International Relations, Foreign Affairs, Economics
- Subcategories: Business, Feminism, Feminists, Women’s Rights, Gender Issues, Sexism, Human Rights, Labor, Unions, Work, Employment
- Curriculum: Women’s History, 20th & 21st Century European History
- Geographical Location: Switzerland
- Date: September 19, 1906
Article abstract: For the first time in European history, nations agreed collectively to advance an international standard for labor forbidding the employment of women at night.
Summary of Event
The gathering of representatives of fourteen European nations in Bern, Switzerland, in September of 1906 and their agreement to act in concert to ban night work for women marked not only the culmination of labor reformers’ efforts to protect female workers and advance their welfare but also the establishment as operative the principle of international agreement...
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