economic conditions

Photographs and interviews reveal different aspects of the lives of women in twenty countries throughout the world.

Twenty women chronicle their experiences living in the mill towns of North Carolina.

Uses maps, text, and other graphics to explore how women live across continents and cultures, examining the current status of women in relation to a variety of key issues such as equality, feminism, women at work, domestic violence, and lesbian rights.

Examines some of the reasons why so many immigrants from Great Britain came to the United States between the 1830s and the 1890s, many of them in search of work, and discusses where they settled and what their lives were like in the new country.

Teaches girls, through the use of women role models, to investigate options outside the traditional roles of wife and mother by learning to develop their economic power.

Examines the long-term effects on the Japanese Americans of their World War II experiences. Data from the first-ever, representative survey of a community of Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in US detention camps during World War II, was used for this book. Topics explored using this data include the effects of incarceration and resettlement on social relationships and community structure, educational and occupational trajectories, marriage and childbearing, military service, and draft resistance.

Virginia Woolf's classic essay that explores the reasons why women do not have the same influence, power, and wealth as men do.

Discusses the social and economic problems faced by twelve million Hispanic Americans who live and work in the United States today.