individualistic feminism that focused on the needs of those at the top. Meanwhile, as many white, college-educated women advanced up …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 …

The traditional historical narrative claims that White women were rarely involved in market transactions for enslaved … the first quantitative estimates of the extent of White women's involvement in antebellum slave transactions as owners of … record. Contrary to the narrative, we find that White women were quite frequently noted as owners of record in transactions …