The scope is confined to women's paid work, excluding contributions made on the home front. A 16-page introduction chronicling the history of women and work in

Explores the changing role of women in American society in the early years of the twentieth century

In this collection of informative essays, Noralee Frankel and Nancy S. Dye bring together work by such notable scholars as Ellen Carol DuBois, Alice Kessler-Har

Discusses how women were treated before they had voting rights, what was being done to change the rights of women, and how it has changed in today's society.

The Progressive Era, a few brief decades around the turn of the last century, still burns in American memory for its outsized personalities: Theodore Roosevelt,