Education and Women's Work

John L. Rury is Associate Professor in the School for New Learning at DePaul University.

"This book fills an immense lacuna in the history of women's education, the history of secondary education, and the history of curriculum. The use of multiple sources of information is ambitious and unusual. The lines of interpretation are provocative and fundamental, creating new conceptual dimensions for historians of women, education, and labor to explore."Education and Women's Work is a fine, complex book." — Barbara Finkelstein, University of Maryland.

• List of Tables List of Figures Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction One Women at School: The Feminization of American High Schools, 1870–1900 Visions of EqualityFeminization of the High SchoolThe Coeducation QuestionEquality and the CurriculumConclusion: An Age of OpportunityTwo Participation and Purpose in Women's Education: Who Went to School, and Why Who Went to SchoolFemale School Participation, 1870–1900: An Ecological AnalysisThe Personal RecordConclusion: Stepping into a Larger WorldThree Women at Work: Female Labor Force Participation and Education, 1890–1930 The Changing Shape of Women's Work, 1890–1930School-Leaving and Labor Force Participation: Regional DifferencesOccupations and EducationEthnicity, Education, and Women's WorkConclusion: Opportunities and Constraints in Female EmploymentFour Vocationalism Ascendant:Women and the High School Curriculum, 1890–1930 New Purposes in Women's EducationThe Home Economics MovementCommercial Education: A Vocational GroundswellIndustrial Education for WomenThe Changing Face of CoeducationRegional Patterns of Female Participation in High School CoursesConclusion: Educational Policy and Women's WorkFive Varieties of Adaptation: Local Patterns of Women's Education and Work Education and Women's Work in Two CitiesWomen's Work and the High School Curriculum: Patterns of AdaptationEducation and Social Class: Women in Clerical CoursesConclusion: Education and Local Labor MarketsConclusion Statistical Appendix Notes Index