Women worth knowing
Extraordinary women, overlooked stories, and a more complete history. Explore the lives, ideas, and achievements that changed the world.
Women’s working conditions, workplace power, and labor organizing, including the experiences of workers and managers.
Louise Otto-Peters founded a newspaper that invited women to speak for themselves. When Saxony barred women from responsible editorship, she kept the paper going beyond its borders.
She turned factory experience into a powerful voice for working women, organizing unions and demanding the safer conditions, fair treatment, and recognition their labor deserved.
She managed women in a sugar factory with authority they remembered long afterward. Their recollections capture the lasting influence of a formidable workplace leader.