Most Americans think that our country has done quite a lot to protect women and ensure gender equity in the workplace …. After all, we have banned discrimination against women, required equal pay for equal work, and adopted family …-leave legislation. But the fact is that we have a two-tiered system, where some working women have a full panoply of rights while others …

Baby boomer professional women : who are they? -- Family influences -- Building careers in an era of change -- At the … stories of baby boomer women important? -- What are the lessons we can all take away? -- Post-career, but future-oriented …

's Greatest Woman Athlete / Lisa Shaver -- In Rosie's Shadow: World War II Recruitment Rhetoric and Women's Work in Public Memory …Introduction: Working Women in(to) Rhetorical History / Jessica Enoch and David Gold -- Republicanism, Religiosity, and … the Rhetoric of Women's Labor Reform in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1830-1850 000 / Amy J. Wan -- From Slave to Seamstress …

Introduction / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz -- Transitions over the lifecycle. Women working longer: facts and … some explanations / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz -- The return to work and women's employment decisions / Nicole … Maestas -- Understanding why black women are not working longer / Joanna N. Lahey -- Family matters: caregiving, marriage, and …