Women in the twentieth century
Subtitle: a study of their political, social and economic activities
By: by Sophonisba P. Breckinridge.
Contributors: United States. President's Research Committee on Social Trends.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Recent social trends monographs
Publisher: McGraw-Hill book company, inc.
Published: 1933
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: Women -- United States; Women -- Social and moral questions; Women -- Societies and clubs; Women -- Employment -- United States; Women in politics; Women in public life
Description: The author discusses women and the labor market, the home economy, consumption, and leisure. In part 1 (devoted to "Women's Use of Spare Time"), the chapter on "The Post-War Development, 1918-1932" (pp. 42-91) concerns women's clubs, the YWCA, the American Home Economics Association, African American women's groups, the National Consumers League, and the National Woman's Trade Union League of America. Chapters in part 2 (devoted to "Women and Gainful Employment," pp. 99-242), cover "Women's Sources of Income," "Women in Selected Manufacturing Occupations," "Women and the World of Business," and "Women and Unemployment." '
Notes: "Published under the direction of the President's research committee on social trends."--Foreword by the committee.