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Mill Talk: The stories of women war workers at Raytheon, 1941-1945
Wednesday, Oct 22, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Free
From suffragette to war worker – and military ranks open to women, presented by Chet Michalak, Raytheon historian and archivist.
The suffragette movement ends the 100-year struggle for women’s rights in 1920 and is followed by a home front effort that dramatically increases the ranks of female war workers. The call goes out for women workers by recruitment posters, newspaper and radio ads.
Speaker bio:
Chet Michalak, Principal Technical Support Engineer with honors with 38 years at Raytheon. In 1977 he joined the U.S. Army 3/2nd Armored Cavalry followed by a tour with the Massachusetts Army National Guard. Chet became Raytheon’s volunteer company historian and archivist after studying with the previous historian, Norman Krim.
Mill Talks at the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation are free and open to the public and are made possible by the generous support of the Lowell Institute.
Free to the pubic, but registration required.
