The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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Page 132
... percent of the labor force , in 1900 twenty percent . Most of these women worked in the least skilled , lowest paid indus- trial occupations , over forty percent of them in the exploited service trades . Their wages were usually one ...
... percent of the labor force , in 1900 twenty percent . Most of these women worked in the least skilled , lowest paid indus- trial occupations , over forty percent of them in the exploited service trades . Their wages were usually one ...
Page 184
... percent of all women were to be found in professional occupations ; in those nursing and teaching ( with the exception of college teaching ) predominated , employing 59 percent of all professional women . Women were grossly ...
... percent of all women were to be found in professional occupations ; in those nursing and teaching ( with the exception of college teaching ) predominated , employing 59 percent of all professional women . Women were grossly ...
Page 189
... percent of all men , only one percent of women gets more than five years of college education , as against four per- cent of men . The relatively low percentage of women in the top level professions stems from a variety of causes ...
... percent of all men , only one percent of women gets more than five years of college education , as against four per- cent of men . The relatively low percentage of women in the top level professions stems from a variety of causes ...
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abolitionist American women Angelina Grimké Anne Hutchinson Anthony antislavery became Beecher birth control black women Boston campaign career Carrie Chapman Catt cause Charlotte Perkins Charlotte Perkins Gilman child church cities Civil College colonial America colonial women contribution death decades developed Dorothea Dix economic Elizabeth Cady Stanton Emma equal factory federal amendment female suffrage feminist field Frances Frances Wright freedom frontier Gilman girls Grimké Grimké sisters Harriet husband industry Jane Addams labor ladies later leaders leadership legislation literary lives Lucretia Mott male Margaret Sanger marriage married Mary Baker Eddy Massachusetts ment mother National NAWSA nineteenth century nurses NWTUL organized percent pioneer plantation political President reform role Sarah Sarah Grimké sisters slave slavery social society soldiers South southern status struggle suffragists Susan teachers tion United vote wages Willard wives woman suffrage woman's rights movement workers York
References to this book
Theories of Women's Studies Gloria Bowles,Renate Duelli-Klein,Renate Klein No preview available - 1983 |