Title: Nurses' questions/women's questions
First published: 1996
Description: In the forty year period after World War II, American women's roles and perceptions changed dramatically. Between 1946 and 1986 married females became a large and stable component of the labor force. During the late 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, a growing number of these women adopted the beliefs of the re-emerging feminist movement. This study analyzes the impact of both the demographic revolution and the women's movement on postwar women workers.

It also traces the rise of a conservative backlash and examines the reasons traditionalist women found feminism threatening. Nursing, a historically feminized occupation, is the prism through which postwar women are studied.
Subjects: Employment, Feminism, History, Married women, Nurses, Nursing, Social aspects, Social aspects of Nursing, Social conditions, Nursing, social aspects, Nursing, vocational guidance
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: RT86.5 .L43 1996