Women and the Labor Force: Myths and Realities

FAIN: FT-13266-77

Margaret Klein Nelson
Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT 05753-6004)

To examine the interplay between ideology and economic change as manifested in the distribution of women workers in the occupational structures in the early 19th century and through the present. Study will examine the development of ideas about appropriate roles for women and the reality of women's participation in the labor force. The two often diverged.