This episode Jill and Heather discuss the rise and fall of the use of radium in the first part of the 1900s. Jill reports several stories of girls impacted by working in radium factories and how the factories were finally held accountable for the illnesses and deaths of so many women.

Our sources for this episode include:

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/tumwater-wa/mabel-williams-6529794

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2019/03/radium-girls-living-dead-women/

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/how-we-realized-putting-radium-in-everything-was-not-the-answer/273780/

https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200412/history.cfm

https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radioactivity-antiques#:~:text=When%20radium%20was%20discovered%20in,%2Din%2Dthe%2Ddark.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/radium-girls/4

https://www.britannica.com/story/radium-girls-the-women-who-fought-for-their-lives-in-a-killer-workplace

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/radium-girls-43157118-9557-4c36-a874-729d0a323444

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/radium-girls-982ea9bc-f037-4b01-b326-d588e2c6dc18

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