Download or read book Women in the Workplace written by Dorothy Schneider and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 1993-06-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 America is followed by entries in A-Z arrangement, each with see also references and at least one bibliographic citation. Most entries are biographical, but others discuss issues, themes, categories of work, or organizations and institutions, e.g. academic women, apprentices, architects, artists, sexual harassment, nontraditional occupations, White House Conference on Children (1909). This reference is useful in particular for access to information about some lesser known important women. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR