to Offer Postwar Pioneers?
The comparatively few women in Alaska enjoy the special place
of respect which frontier America has always accorded its women. Woman suffrage
came in Alaska as a matter of coursea bill establishing it was the first
one passed by the Alaska Legislature. The ladies known as Lou who followed the
gold stampeders at the end of the last century have departed or grown into respectability.
They were succeeded by hard-working womenfor like the men, Alaskan women
Alaskan women can and do rival their men in many fields
of business and the professions. They prospect, trap and hunt, drive taxis, and
repair machinerywearing dungarees and boots like the men. That does not
mean that they are any the less femininethe woman settler in Alaska who
fails to bring evening dress and slippers will regret the lack. And as in the
United States, Alaskan women take an especial responsibility for community and
social betterment, and are foremost in forming cultural groups, 4-H Clubs, Parent
Teachers Associations, Red Cross chapters, church societies, and the like.
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