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Work and Education

• Apter, Terri. Working Women Don't Have Wives. St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
• Bernard, Jessie. Academic Women. The Word Publishing Company, 1966.
• Bird, Caroline. Born Female. Pocket Books, 1971.
• Dr. Blackwell, Elizabeth. Opening the Medical Profession to Women. Schocken Books, 1976.
• Gender in the Workplace. Ed. Clair Brown and Joseph A. Pechman. The Brookings Institution, 1987.
• Burke, Clifford. Printing It: A Guide to Graphic Techniques for the Impecunious. Wingbow Press, 1972.
• Chesler, Phyllis and Emily Jane Goodman. Women, Money, & Power. Bantam Books, 1976.
• Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. More Work for Mother. Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1983.
• Cowan, Susan. From College Girl to Working Women: 201 Big City Jobs for Women Graduates. Collier Books, 1970.
• Dublin, Thomas. Women at Work. Columbia University Press, 1976.
• Enloe, Cynthia. Does Khaki Become You? : The Militarization of Women's Lives. South End Press, 1983.
• Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs. Woman's Place: Options and Limits in Professional Careers. University of California Press, 1970.
• Foxworth, Jo. Boss Lady: An Executive Woman Talks About Making It!. Warner Books, 1978.
• Foxworth, Jo. Wising Up: The Mistakes Women Make in Business and How to Avoid Them. Dell Publishing, 1980. 
• Gerson, Kathleen. Hard Choices: How Women Decide about Work, Career, and Motherhood. University of California Press, 1985.
• Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Women & Economics. Ed. Carl Degler. Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966.
• Glazer, Penina Migdal and Miriam Slater. Unequal Colleagues. Rutgers University Press, 1987.
• Hennig, Margaret and Anne Jardin. The Managerial Woman: The Survival Manual for Women in Business. Pocket Books, 1966.
• Hill, Stephen. Competition and Control at Work: The New Industrial Sociology. The MIT Press, 1981.
• Howe, Louise Kapp. Pink Collar Workers: Inside the World of Women's Work. Avon Books, 1977.
• Joan, Polly and Andrea Chesman. Guide to Women's Publishing. Dustbooks, 1978.
• Kleiman, Carol. Women's Networks. Ballantine Books, 1980.
• Women & Success: The Anatomy of Achievement. Ed. Ruth B. Kundsin. William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1973.
• LaRouche, Janice and Regina Ryan. Strategies for Women at Work. Avon Books, 1984.
• Lawson, Lesley. Working Women: A Portrait of South Africa's Black Women Workers. Ed. Helene Perold. Ravan Press (pty) Ltd., 1985.
• American Education and Vocationalism: A Documentary History 1870-1970. Ed. Marvin Lazerson and W. Norton Grubb. Teachers College Press, 1974.
• Loeser, Herta. Women, Work, & Volunteering. Beacon Press, 1974.
• Hard-Hatted Women: Stories of Struggle and Success in the Trades. Ed. Molly Martin. The Seal Press, 1988.
• Maupin, Joyce. Labor Heroines: Ten Women Who Led the Struggle. Union WAGE Educational Committee, 1974.
• Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Inc. You and Your Money: A Financial Handbook for Women.
• Mitchell, Joyce Slayton. I Can Be Anything: Careers and Colleges for Young Women. Bantam Books, 1978.
• Oakley, Ann. The Sociology of Housework. Random House, Inc., 1974.
• Oakley, Ann. Woman's Work: The Housewife, Past and Present. Random House, Inc., 1976.
• Tradeswoman Resources: A Manual for Tradeswomen and Women Exploring the Trades. Ed. Laura Pawle and Toni Adams. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1988. 
• 4 Days, 40 Hours: Reporting a Revolution in Work and Leisure. Ed. Riva Poor. Bursk & Poor Publishing, 1970.
• Richardson, Dorothy and Elinor Langer. Women at Work: "The Long Day" and "Inside the New York Telephone Company". Ed. William L. O’Neill. Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company, 1972.
• Rollins, Judith. Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers. Temple University Press, 1985.
• Dr. Senter, Sylvia, Marguerite Howe, and Dr. Donald A. Saco. Women at Work: A Psychologist's Secrets to Getting Ahead in Business. The Putnam Publishing Group, 1982.
• Sheffield, Charles and Carol Rosin. Space Careers. Quill, 1984.
• Stellman, Jeanne Mager. Women's Work, Women's Health: Myths and Realities. Pantheon Books, 1977.
• Tilly, Louise A. and Joan W. Scott. Women, Work, & Family. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1978.
• Tobias, Sheila. Overcoming Math Anxiety. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978.
• Women in Non-Traditional Occupations: A Bibliography. Ed. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1976.
• Women’s Studies Group Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. Women Take Issue: Aspects of Women's Subordination. Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1978.

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