Women of Steel
Schedule
Fri May 08 2026 at 06:00 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
The Pump House | Homestead, PA
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Panel Discussion: Women of Steel: Stories of Strength, Struggle and SolidarityEvent host, Battle of Homestead Board member, Maura Bainbridge holds a PhD in anthropology. Her academic work considered the memorialization, and more often the erasure, of labor history at sites of labor conflict in the US. She believes history is important to preserve and celebrate, allowing contemporary workers to challenge seemingly immovable power structures while offering models on how to build a more just world.
Women of Steel: Stories of Strength, Struggle & Solidarity Panel Participants
Panel Moderation, Steffi Domike, plays a significant role in telling of women in the workplace history through her work as an activist, author and producer of documentaries like 1985’s Women of Steel, which chronicled the struggles that laid-off female steelworkers, and The River Ran Red, which portrays the 1892 Homestead lockout and strike from the workers’ perspective.
Panel Participants
Rosemary Bezy, recently retired from Clariton Works Steel and she served as the United Steel Workers local 1557 Vice President.
Betty Esper began working in the mills at age 18, laid off at 51. She served as Homestead’s, the region’s steel capital, mayor for 30 years. Guiding the borough from an industrial to retail town.
Sandra Gould-Ford is an author, artist, educator, and photographer. While working at Jones & Laughlin Steel Company, Sandra began a photo-memoir called Steel Genesis, Images and Stories of Metal, Mettle and Personal Genesis.
Keli Vereb has served as coordinator of USW District 10 Women of Steel, facilitates Women of Steel training for the district. Member of Local 2227 since starting work at USS Irvin Plant of the Mon Valley Works in 1995.
Mike Stout worked for ten years as a crane operator at Homestead Steel Works and served as Union Grievance Officer local 1397.
Open audience participation from women who worked in the steel mills.
Reception at 6:00pm
Event begins at 7:00pm
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Where is it happening?
The Pump House, 880 E Waterfront Dr, Homestead, PA 15120-5044, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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