provides a lens through which to examine the history of women, gender, sexuality, labor, race, and ethnicity during this period …"American Working Women in World War II introduces students to American women's experiences in defense work during … accounts of women from diverse backgrounds, cartoons, photographs, and magazine articles--arranged in thematic chapters …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively … more had high-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women …

We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in … allow women to start fertility later and invest more in the labor market. We present a new theory of fertility that …