Teatervrkstedet Madam Bach, 2009. [2] In retaliation, her car tires were slashed a week later. It was absolutely terrifying". The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl. In 1987 the sea, the landscapes of rolling hills and verdant truck farms called her to return to California to record her as yet unpainted childhood memories,not as she remembered them, but as if, through the eyes of her most esteemed mentors - Cezanne, Sisley, Monet and Bonnard. "En Mrkelig Have" ("A Remarkable Garden"). Now her 14-year battle has inspired a film, and could win Charlize Theron an Oscar. However, the judgment was appealed and reversed by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on December 5, 1997. Bernice Johnson Reagon is a renowned composer, historian, musician, and activist. The museums newest on-line exhibit, Women in Industry, demonstrates that women have been in the workforce since the nations inception and have been key players in movements to improve working conditions. Jenson remained disappointed with the lawyers for settling. She had had enough, so she filed a complaint with the State Department of Human Rights in October of 1984. Suzanne Goldenberg. n the boxes of memorabilia that Lois Jenson keeps of her life as a miner there is a photograph showing a slim blonde woman almost completely obscured by grimy coveralls, hard hat, goggles and an innovation all her own: a bulky waistcoat. He was nominated several times for both of the most prestigious international awards in children's literature, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award[14] and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. archived form does not constitute a republication of the story. 8 death records. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lois Jensen. It was filed in 1988 on behalf of Lois Jenson and other female workers at the EVTAC mine in Eveleth, Minnesota on the state's northern Mesabi Range, which is part of the Iron Range. Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co., 130 F.3d 1287 (8th Cir. In 1975, Lois Jenson, a single mother on welfare, heard that the local iron mine was now hiring women. Lois Johnson spent her childhood in the misty rolling hills of the Santa Cruz mountains. In 1975, Lois Jenson became one of the first women to work in the iron mines of Minnesota and the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit. The women were caught between management and the union. "Watching it, there were certain things that felt familiar," Jenson says. Biography ID: 58938664 . Sister Margaret Traxler was a Catholic feminist nun and a civil rights activist who marched alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the famous march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. The newness of Northern Arizona with its native people inspired her to devote all her time and energy learning to know and paint portraits of the Hopi and Navajo people and their lovely children. She loved the film. Jenson took a job at the mines because it paid 3 times as much as she could earn anywhere else and she needed a job that would pay enough to support herself and her young son and provide benefits such as health care. Now and again, a woman miner would come in to cash a pay cheque that was several times what Jenson earned. According to critic Anna Karlskov Skyggebjerg, Brgger "has given the texts new meanings without closing the openness to many interpretations that is one of their hallmarks." We cover actors, musicians, politicians, and more. Lois Jensen was born on June 20, 1931, and died at age 41 years old in April 1973. If anyone knows about her Husbands information, please let us know in the comments. "I'm not sure how to say it.". The women of Eveleth Mines should take well-deserved pride in their historic contributions. The women were all subjected to verbal abuse: whores, sluts, bitches. As a young adult she moved to the Southwest U. S. where, for the next twenty-seven years, she lived, studied and worked as an artist. The retired federal magistrate permitted lawyers from the mine company to obtain medical records of all of the women for their entire lifetimes. Bookbird (54.4): 45. The hours were grueling, but the pay was astonishing, and Jenson didn't think twice before accepting a job cleaning viscous soot from enormous grinding machines. Her character, though based on Jenson, borrows details from the lives of different women behind the suit - Jenson calls it a composite. In the end, Lois Jenson and the other class action participants did not profit greatly from the lawsuit. "[13], Jensen received multiple awards and prizes. Over the course of the next 24 years, he accomplished his goal of writing 1001 of these very short stories, each in the shape of a square. Previous to Lois's current city of Babbitt, MN, Lois Jenson lived in Gilbert MN and Mountain Iron MN. She contributed to the more poetic and fairytale-like imagery of the 1980s, and has held her own in the postmodern and deconstructionist revival that has characterized the 1990s and the turn of the century. United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story, U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals case documents, Class Action: What Happens When Employers Refuse To Remedy Sexual Harassment, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jenson_v._Eveleth_Taconite_Co.&oldid=1142311149, Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law (2003), This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 18:18. By subscribing, you acknowledge and agree to KSL.com's, SUU waiving tuition for Native American students, 19 pounds of fentanyl pills found during traffic stop lead to federal charges, Salt Lake releases water from Parleys Canyon reservoirs over possible flood risks, Only a fraction of reported sexual assaults are prosecuted in Utah. Select the next to any field to update. In 1983, in the year of Lois Jenson's passing, physicist Sally K. Ride, 32, became the first US woman astronaut in space as a crew member aboard space shuttle Challenger on June 18th. In April 2006, the Hibbing, Minnesota, chapter of the American Association of University Women held a ceremony honoring the women workers at Eveleth Mines who filed the first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit. Some are like fairy tales, with familiar characters like kings, queens, and dragons. Suzanne Goldenberg meets her, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Get informative articles and interesting stories delivered to your inbox weekly. When, in 1975, she heard the Eveleth Mines were hiring, Jenson applied. she says. Share memories and family stories, photos, or ask questions. Lois Jenson of Florida was born on June 25, 1934, and died at age 48 years old in January 1983. There were 600 men and four women in the mine, and I knew no one. [18] His family moved from Nibe to Beder, south of Aarhus, when he was 12. Her real name is Louise Jenson. Teater Refleksion: a clip from the 2008 production "Mak-vrk." Her female colleagues at the mines sought employment there for much of the same reasons, many were family breadwinners and some were single women trying to support themselves. Five Square Stories. As Sren Fan (Lecturer and specialist in children's literature) explains in his review of the eleventh volume, "Smaller children simply listen to the stories, older children contemplate both form and meaning, high school students analyze and interpret them, and among some grown ups they attain cult status and become collectibles. Photos, memories, family stories & discoveries are unique to you, and only you can control. On August 15, 1988, attorney Paul Sprenger filed Lois E. Jenson and Patricia S. Kosmach v. Eveleth Taconite Co. in the U.S. District Court in Minneapolis. Ahead of the trial, the plaintiffs endured long depositions that explored their personal lives in great detail. In January 1987, the state's agency requested that Ogelbay Norton Co.,[3] a Cleveland, Ohio-based part-owner of the mine, pay US$6,000 in punitive damages and $5,000 to Jenson for mental anguish, but the company refused. The company refused to install womens bathrooms and provide safety equipment sized for womens smaller bodies. She also felt a sense of loss. "[19] As a young man, Jensen studied to be an architect, with a specialty in urban planning, and he worked as an architect and city planner for a private firm next to the Aarhus townhall. Translated by Lise Kildegaard. Louise Jensons fathers name is updated soon. The Biography piece is collaborative, where we work together to present the facts. In the boxes of memorabilia that Lois Jenson keeps of her life as a miner there is a photograph showing a slim blonde woman almost completely obscured by grimy coveralls, hard hat, goggles and an innovation all her own: a bulky waistcoat. Their union, USW did nothing to stop it. Blogpost. Georgetown University Gallery Port History Museum Atlanta-Fulton County Library Trans America Tower of San Francisco Natural History Museum of Los Angeles Dallas City Hall John F. Kennedy Museum and Library Ronald Reagan Presidential Library State University of New York Gallery Ocean Avenue, Carmel, CA Solo exhibition, 2002 CaliforniaView Fine Arts, Los Gatos, CA "Their California" exhibition, 2003 Big Sur Land Trust Invitational Plein Air Show, New Masters Gallery, Carmel, CA 2004 CaliforniaView Fine Arts Exhibition, Spring 2005 Today, she shares a studio with husband, Ron Grauer, in the Santa Cruz mountains where they continue to paint in theirmuch loved butcrowded little studio. ", For Jenson, the breaking point came in 1984 when, frustrated by the refusal of management or the union to intervene, she filed a complaint with the Minnesota human rights commission. Taking a chance, she became one of the first four women to work in the iron mines of Minnesota. 27 birth, 8 death, 4 marriage, 1 divorce, View She has 5 beautiful bungalows in England, United Kingdom. As a result of not having facilities, many of the women would stop drinking and have to hold their urine for hours resulting in dehydration and severe bladder and kidney infections. Even so, "North Country" director Niki Caro contacted her last fall to find out her concerns about the movie, a fictionalized account of how Jenson and other female miners came to file a sexual harassment lawsuit against Eveleth Mines. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933. The two women finally convinced enough others to join them and in 1988 the suit was certified as a class action with the USDistrict Court for the District of Minnesota. But she was taking home three times as much money as she had been. [4] His work is characterized by wordplay and playful experiments in form and structure, which have led critics to draw comparisons to Borges, Calvino, Gogol, and the poetry of the Oulipo movement. In 1975, she was a single mother working to support her family. "He grabbed my wrists, came around the desk and pushed me back in the chair. Class-action status was requested at the time, and granted by James M. Rosenbaum on December 16, 1991. Where they would find themselves vulnerable to the men. With the eleventh and final book in the series, which includes 100 pictures and one story, Jensen reached his goal of producing 1001 stories. She declined to sell her life story to the producers of the film and, in general, she says with a chuckle, "I gave them a lot of crap.". North Country is beautifully shot, with a soundtrack from Bob Dylan, who himself was raised in a Minnesota mining town. Her college name was British International College. Louise Jensons father belonged to a good family. The true story of Lois Jenson, a petite single mother, who was among the first women hired by a northern Minnesota iron mine in 1975. We pray that she will always be happy with her family. Then in 1986, a few years before Lois Jenson (who inspired Charlize Theron's character in "North Country") brought her suit, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in favor of a bank employee who. "It really was like they had never seen a woman before." On that point, Jenson found a sympathetic ear in Caro. Lois' immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Jenson family tree. The moment she stepped foot in the processing plant, she sensed the hostility. In most areas of the mine there were no bathroom facilities for women and the men and management took a deal with it attitude when the women complained, the men did not need bathrooms, why should the women. An extra, she can be seen behind Theron at a hockey game. The parents were overjoyed at the birth and invited all their relatives to the feast. She managed to escape that situation, but it would not be the last time she would be threatened or assaulted. But mining was in her blood. Information in the story may be outdated She was a little more worldly than some of the other women. Susan Jollies Letter to the Eveleth Mill Women on Behalf of the National Women's History Museum, Chronicles of American Women: Your History Makers, Women Writing History: A Coronavirus Journaling Project, We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC, Learning Resources on Women's Political Participation. But most importantly by certifying the case as a class action, the court put the principles of collective bargaining to work in the courtroom and it gave once powerless, voiceless workingwomen a platform to demand change and the leverage to achieve it. ", Jenson says it may take awhile for the movie to sink in. Based on the short story. 0385496125, Toronto Public Library Patrick J. McNulty of Duluth was named special master a few months later to oversee a trial that would determine the amount of money owed to the women in damages. ", Skyggebjerg, Anna Karlskov. Based on 23 square stories. "This movie has given me my life back," she says. By the time she was 27, she was back in the Iron Range, a single mother working for minimum wage at a credit union. These were small compensations for almost daily indignities suffered by the women. The eleventh and final book in the series, illustrated by Lilian Brgger and Maria Lundn, includes 134 pages of drawings, most of them in color. "That was my armour," she says. Other stories feature human characters, animals, or animated natural beings such as trees, bushes, or grass. The case was also the subject of . The first begins "engang der var," or "once there was," a variation on the traditional opening of a Danish fairy tale "der var engang," which is the equivalent of the English "once upon a time." It took more than 14 years for Jenson to win her case. Gyldendals Store Brnebogspris (Gyldendal's Major Children's Book Prize), 2009. "Charlize Theron is playing me, but she's not playing me," Jenson says. 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