The Rise of Corporate Feminism : : Women in the American Office, 1960–1990 / / Allison Elias.
From the 1960s through the 1990s, the most common job for women in the United States was clerical work. Even as college-educated women obtained greater opportunities for career advancement, occupational segregation by gender remained entrenched. How did feminism in corporate America come to represen...
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