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Archive Home > 2012 > January > 01 > Women of the mill, 38 years later

Women of the mill, 38 years later


January 1, 2012

Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-day series of columns about the first women to work permanently in Bend’s lumber mills.

Now that it’s 2012, it’s hard to imagine a time when women were seen as a workplace oddity.

Here in Bend, that was true just 38 years ago in the Brooks-Scanlon mill.....

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