The role of the women's movement in transforming American society is explored fully in this colorful chronicle of a social revolution, weaving together years of research and ...

In the 1950s, the exclusion of women and of black and Latino men from higher-paying jobs was so universal as to seem normal to most Americans. Today, diversity in the workforce ...

Scholar, journalist, activist, and noted author, Betty Friedan led a public campaign for equality in American society that stretched from 1950rs"s suburbia to the close of the ...

This brief, accessible primary source collection contains over one hundred different sources that illuminate the history of women in the United States. This book combines ...

The director of Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever describes the troubles he encountered while making Malcolm X, a film based on the life of the slain African-American leader ...

This is the report of the ninth body appointed by the President to study the status of women in the United States, beginning in 1961 with the first committee chaired by Eleanor ...