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But Mrs. Murray's ideas and those of the other critics remained isolated expressions of advanced thinking until several decades later when Emma Willard , Catherine Beecher , and Mary Lyon joined the two great educators Henry Barnard and ...
But Mrs. Murray's ideas and those of the other critics remained isolated expressions of advanced thinking until several decades later when Emma Willard , Catherine Beecher , and Mary Lyon joined the two great educators Henry Barnard and ...
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Women remained untrained , casual labor , and soon were relegated by custom to the lowest paid jobs . Long hours , overwork , and poor working conditions came to characterize women's work in industry for almost a century .
Women remained untrained , casual labor , and soon were relegated by custom to the lowest paid jobs . Long hours , overwork , and poor working conditions came to characterize women's work in industry for almost a century .
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Raised in great poverty on a cotton farm in South Carolina , Mary McLeod Bethune always remained close to her southern country roots , even when she became the first member of her race to head a federal agency . A scholarship student at ...
Raised in great poverty on a cotton farm in South Carolina , Mary McLeod Bethune always remained close to her southern country roots , even when she became the first member of her race to head a federal agency . A scholarship student at ...
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Theories of Women's Studies Gloria Bowles,Renate Duelli-Klein,Renate Klein No preview available - 1983 |