Chet Michalak, Raytheon historian and archivist, tracks women's participation in U.S. labor.
The Suffragette movement, a 100-year struggle for women’s right to vote, ended in partial victory in 1920, and was quickly followed by a home front effort just two decades later that dramatically increased the ranks of female workers supporting the war effort. Women answered the call for workers seen on recruitment posters, newspaper and in radio ads.
Chet Michalak, Principal Technical Support Engineer with honors with thirty-eight years at Raytheon. In 1977 he joined the U.S. Army 3/2nd Armored Cavalry followed by a tour with the Massachusetts Army National Guard. Chet became Raytheon’s volunteer company historian and archivist after studying with the previous historian Mr. Norman Krim.
