Год выпуска: 0 Автор: Kathleen A. Laughlin Издательство: Страниц: 0 ISBN: 1555534449
Описание
For over seventy-five years, the Women's Bureau, a division of the U.S. Department of Labor, has played a major part in the struggle for equal rights. In this institutional history, Kathleen A. Laughlin offers the fullest account to date of the Women's Bureau during the post-World War II era, showing how its long tradition of linking government with grassroots constituents supported and sustained the political milieu for women's rights activism in the 1940s and 1950s, and set the foundation for resurgent feminism in the 1960s. Laughlin details how the Bureau's strategic use of national conferences, regional field representatives, research, publicity, and alliances with the private and public sectors encouraged political activism and continuity amongwomen in labor unions and disparate religious, civic, service, and professional women's organizations after World War II. She also discusses the department's role as a catalyst for the establishment of the President's Commission on...
