Beyond Her Sphere

Monograph tracing historical to contemporary trends in sex discrimination and in equal opportunity affecting woman worker professional workers in the USA - examines the ideology of female social status inferiority during the 17th century in the UK, the cult of homemaker domesticity during the 1800s, progress towards greater employment opportunities in the early 1900s and changes in the sexual division of labour and the feminist social movement in the 1945 to 1975 period. Bibliography pp. 195 to 204.