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This report provides a comprehensive overview on women’s position in the economy.

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The 1978 Task Force on Women Business Owners studied women trying to start or expand a small business and what gendered barriers they faced. The report’s introduction summarizes the task force’s focus, procedures, and findings before making recommendations. Information included in the report includes some history and context, data collected from a variety of perspectives (including the American Management Association, government agencies), and addresses the effect of the federal government on women business owners and entrepreneurs. For researchers interested in the state of women-owned businesses in the latter part of the twentieth century, this report offers important insight.

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This report examines reasons the reported wages of women have remained constant at approximately 59 percent of men's wages during the twentieth century, and looks for explanations for the remarkable growth in the proportion of women who work.

Provides statistical data on women workers. Available online at Hathi Trust Digital Library External.

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This report on women employed in gainful occupations was the first of its kind in the United States and was based on the reports of the 12th Decennial Census and earlier censuses.

While women have entered the labor market in unprecedented numbers they still earn less than men and have fewer opportunities for advancement. This study traces the evolution of the female labor force in America. The author was awarded the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

This book focuses on special characteristics of women and minorities in businesses. Particular attention is placed on women-owned businesses and women's economic well-being, including women's population statistics, their labour force participation, age, education, occupation, work schedules and a variety of other characteristics. In addition, this book also presents information on minorities in the work force and minority-owned businesses, including statistics about the minority population, their labour force participation, average personal and household income.

A study of the trend of recent changes in the numbers, occupational distribution, and family relationship of women reported in the census as following a gainful occupation.--Subtitle.
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This volume offers analytical study of and statistical data on women's occupations for five decades from 1870-1920 based on decennial census data. Includes detailed tables of women's employment in various occupations along with demographic characteristics of the female population.

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Women in Industry is a critical examination of labor history of women in the United States from colonial times to the turn of the 20th century. Since its first publication a century ago, it has received hundreds of citations and had a formative influence in fields as diverse as labor history, gender studies, and economic history methodology. Women in Industry examines working conditions, wages and other forms of compensation across industries and professions. While firmly rooted in economics, Abbott does not overlook the social causes and implications of shifting patterns of female employment nor the organized opposition such changes attracted by established interests. Using masses of carefully compiled evidence, Abbott's work forcefully made the point that, contrary to popular belief, women did not suddenly replace men in industrial employment sometime in the 19th century. Rather, women and children were a regular and prominent feature of American industries in general and manufacturing in particular. Forming the first comprehensive account of female employment in a developing manufacturing economy, Abbott's extensive primary research and dispassionate interpretation make this essential reading for students of economic history.