“When we talk about equal pay for equal work, women in the workplace are beginning to catch up. If we keep going at this current rate, we will achieve full equality in about 475 years. I don't know about you, but I can't wait that long.”                               .....Lya Sorano

HISTORICAL INDEX   |    INFLUENTIAL WOMEN

STUDY GUIDES

Historical Index

Affirmative Action

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

International Council of Women

National Association of Colored Women

National Consumer's League

National Organization for Women

Equal Rights Amendment

Comparable Worth

Women's Trade Union

National Women's Party

United States Women's Bureau

Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire

Coalition of Labor Union Women

President's Commission on the Status of Women

Muller v. State of Oregon

Title IX

Women's Armed Services Integration Act

9 to 5, National Association of Working Women

 

Influential Women

Mary Kenney O'Sullivan

Susan B. Anthony

Leonora O'Reilly

Florence Kelley

Jane Addams

Mary Van Kleeck

Julia Lathrop

Betty Friedan

Edith Abbott

Gloria Steinem

Mary Morton Kehew

Bella Abzug

Margaret Dreier Robins

Shirley Chisholm

Agnes Nestor

Eleanor Roosevelt

Lillian Wald

Myra Colby Bradwell

For a more in-depth study about the history of women in the workplace, please visit these sites:

Our History: We Are Working Women

Contains a historical outline that includes important milestones and advocates of women's work issues. Also includes links to related sites, including Women's Work, a site dedicated to venting workplace frustrations.

American Women At Work

A historical outline of American women, discussing American Indian women, colonial & frontier women, industrial women and an introduction to today’s working women.

 

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