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The American Woman 1987-88:
A Status Report

 

First Edition
Edited by Sara E. Rix (1987)

For updated statistics, vist The American Woman on the Web.

 

Table of Contents

Preface
  by the Honorable Patricia Schroeder and the Honorable Olympia Snowe
Introduction
  by the Honorable Juianita Kreps

Women in Twentieth Century America: An Overview

 

by Sara M. Evans

Women and the Family
  by Andrew Cherlin
Women and the Economy
  by Nancy Barrett
The Women's Movement in Recent American Politics
  by Marian Lief Palley 
1986 in Review
  by Anne J. Stone
Women in Brief
  Women in Business
by Joyce Van Dyke
  Women in the Military
by Carolyn Becraft
  Women in Science
by Betty M. Vetter
  Women in Broadcasting
by Sally Steenland
  Women and Sports
by Wendy Lawrence
  Women in Intercollegiate Sports
by Margaret C. Dunkle
 

Women in Unions
by Anne Nelson

  Women in Unions
by Anne Nelson
  Women in Higher Education
by Donna Shavlik and Judith G. Touchton
  The Classroom Climate for Women
by Bernice R. Sandler
  Women in Theatre
by Joyce Van Dyke
  Women and Reproduction
by Rachel Benson Gold and Cory L. Richards
  Images of Black Women
by Algea O. Harrison
  Latinas in the United States
by Ruth E. Zambrana
  Women Among Immigrants to the United States
by Marion F. Houstoun and Roger G. Kramer
Appendices
  American Women Today: A Statistical Portrait
  Chapter Notes
  References
  Notes on the Contributors
  About the Women's Research & Education Institute
Index