This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War-Era Washington, D.C.
(Part of the Civil War America Series and Civil War America Series)
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In the volatility of the Civil War, the federal government opened its payrolls to women. Although the press and government officials considered the federal employment of women to be an innocuous wartime aberration, women immediately saw the new development for what it was: a rare chance to obtain well-paid, intellectually challenging work in a country and time that typically excluded females from such channels of labor. Thousands of female applicants...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1469668858
ISBN13:9781469668857
Release Date:December 2017
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.19 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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