Jacob Estey’s progressive views towards his workforce extended to women employees. Estey believed that women had the right to do any work for which they were capable, and that their compensation should be equal to their male counterparts.
A permanent exhibit in the Estey Organ Museum documents the Women of Estey.
Click here to read the biographies of some of the women in the Estey family and workforce, compiled by Valerie Abrahamsen for Estey Day, 2014.