Volume 33, Number 13 · August 14, 1986
Women at Work
By Andrew Hacker
A Lesser Life: The Myth of Women's Liberation in America
by Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Morrow, 461 pp., $17.95
A Mother's Work
by Deborah Fallows
Houghton Mifflin, 243 pp., $16.95
Why We Lost the ERA
by Jane J. Mansbridge
University of Chicago Press, 336 pp., $9.95 (paper)
The Divorce Revolution
by Lenore J. Weitzman
Free Press, 504 pp., $19.95
Hard Choices: How Women Decide about Work, Career, and Motherhood
by Kathleen Gerson
University of California Press, 312 pp., $19.95
Alone in a Crowd: Women in the Trades Tell Their Stories
by Jean Reith Schroedel
Temple University Press, 268 pp., $24.95
Women and Work: An Annual Review, Volume I
edited by Laurie Larwood, edited by Ann H. Stromberg, edited by Barbara Gutek
Sage Publications, 312 pp., $29.95
Women in Charge: Dilemmas of Women in Authority
by Aileen Jacobson
Van Nostrand Reinhold, 234 pp., $18.95
The Third Sex: The New Professional Woman
by Patricia A. McBroom
Morrow, 282 pp., $16.95
California Federal Savings and Loan v. Guerra
758 F.2d 390
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Sears, Roebuck and Co.
628 F.Supp 1286
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees v. State of Washington
578 F.Supp 846
That more American women are now working is hardly news. In 1960, only 35 percent of American women were in the labor force. Today that ratio is 55 percent, which means they hold 44 percent of all available jobs. If these are familiar figures, other statistics startle even the experts. Since 1980, women have taken 80 percent of the new jobs created in the economy. If this pace continues, women will make up most of the work force by the turn of the century.
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