![]() “Women got into industrial design and received more formal training. “The same thing happened in World War II,” said Desmarais. ![]() When the world’s young men went off to war, women were called to the workforce to ease labor shortages, filling in for male bank clerks, chauffeurs, streetcar conductors, locomotive dispatchers and much more. That all shifted with the start of World War I.” “In fact, women who found themselves outside of the home and alone in the workplace did not seem respected. “In the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries women didn’t have the training that men received,” Desmarais said. and Europe, as well as museums, The Stewart Program for Modern Design, and the MMFA’s own collection, “Parall(elles)” is set against a complex backdrop of social and political issues. That understanding is what I want people to come away after seeing this show,” said Mary-Dailey Desmarais, the chief curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.īringing together close to 250 objects loaned from private collections in Canada, the U.S., U.K. ![]() ![]() “Despite being woefully under-recognized in the decorative arts and design, women have had a huge impact on all aspects of these fields. ![]()
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