Women and Work in Canada
When I first approached Eva Mikelsons for an interview, the first thing she said was "tell them how much I hated it.". However, throughout the interview Eva spoke animatedly and even remembered anecdotes with fondness. Perhaps it is because of her later experiences that she remembers her entire Eva was born in Latvia but shortly after her birth, her family was evacuated to Australia at the beginning of WWII. Her family, she says, "treated her the same way as [her] brother" "the only reason he got special treatment was because he had polio". Her mother and father both worked - a rarity in postwar Australia - and she attended an all girls school. When questioned, Eva says that she chose nursing because "I was sick of Uni, sick of being dependant on my family and I wanted to move out. But I didn't have the money so I went into nursing. In those days, we got room and board as well as a small wage." In 1963, Eva says that nurses were treated as little more than glorified maids. But unlike the cleaners she compares herself to, the nurses did not have a union. All the young nurses were "like a family, like sisters". They worked 6 days a week for 12 hours a shift w
we need. They say one has nothing to do with the other...how is that possible?" As a woman who was under 15 in her care with very little moral support from her husband who now had to work overtime to RN again. It wasn't easy and sometimes Joe felt like he was a single parent because I just couldn't union if they want, I guess, but I don't think it should be mandatory. The professional association is all born and the mother of her stepchildren was killed in a tragic car accident. She now had four children much less chauvinistic. "That's an Australian thing I think, men are just rude here." Eva got her first job
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