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Interview with Betty B. Cleator [Sound Recording 01]

• 1981-06-06 (Creation)

Audiocassette; 00:30:29

Tape 1, Side 1. This oral history interview with Betty B. Cleator was conducted by Madeline Moore in Warrenton, Oregon, on June 6, 1981. In this interview, Cleator briefly discusses her family background and early life, talks about how she came to work in the Kaiser shipyard in Vancouver, Washington, and shares her experiences as a drafter. She describes the work she did as a draftsman, and speaks at length about the drafting process at Kaiser. She talks about studying landscape architecture in college, and about the difficulty of finding a job in that field as a woman. She describes daily life in the shipyards, shares stories about the dangers of the work, and talks about the discrimination women faced from their union. She shares her memories of life in Portland during the early days of World War II. She talks about jobs she held after the end of the war and discusses how attitudes toward women in the workforce changed.

Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

• English

• Shipbuilding industry--Oregon--Portland
• World War, 1939-1945--Women--Oregon--Portland
• Women--Employment--Oregon--Portland
• Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation—Employees
• Henry J. Kaiser Company—Employees
• Kaiser Company (Portland, Or.)--Employees
• Kaiser Company, Inc. (Vancouver, Wash.)--Employees
• Commercial Iron Works (Portland, Or.)--Employees

• Moore, Madeline (Contributor)