Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick NJ

Unequal Colleagues: The Entrance of Women into the Professions, 1890-1940

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Title: Unequal Colleagues: The Entrance of Women into the Professions, 1890-1940
Author: Penina Migdal Glazier and Miriam Slater
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick NJ
Published: 1987
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 295
Catalogs: History of Medicine, Education, Women's Studies
Description: Original pink and brown glossy paper binding. Spine and parts of cover are sun-faded, and spine has a distinct crease down the center. Pages are unmarked. The professional women who began their careers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were the first generation of American women to attend graduate school and receive professional training. This book looks at nine professional women who were active in four different fields--academia, medicine, research science, and social work--during the Progressive Era, focusing on the discrimination agains them and their responses to it. From the nursing history collection of Sarah Abrams. Paperback, good condition. 295 pages, octavo. ISBN: 0813511879