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~ Gender and Revolution in Germany "We declare work to be a duty and honour for the female sex, claim the right to work and view it as necessary that all things in the way of women working be removed." - Allgemeinen Deutschen Frauenvereins (German Women's Association). This statement was made over 130 years ago in a speech made by Louise Otto-Peters, the founder of the Association in October 1965. In spite of persecution, arrest and condemnation, after the 1880's the leaders of the movement developed many associations for working women. They were disguised as learning institutions or reading clubs, but actually served to politically inform and organize for humane working conditions, equal pay for equal work, protection of pregnant women and recent mothers and the eight-hour day. Emma Ihrer was the driving force for these workplace-centered associations. She was the first, and for a long time the only, female member of the...

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