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Woman's work in America / Annie Nathan Meyer, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Women's issues.
- Women's Issues Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Employment.
- Women.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Women--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2025]
- Summary:
- In 1891, Annie Nathan Meyer, the founder of Barnard College for Women, edited Woman's Work in America. This book focuses on fields in which women had made some progress at that time: education, law, medicine, journalism, and philanthropy (social welfare).
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Editor's Preface0F*
- Chapter I
- Introduction
- Chapter II
- The Education of Woman in the Eastern States
- Evelyn College
- Columbia College in Relation to the Higher Education of Women
- Barnard College
- Vassar College
- Smith College
- Wellesley College
- Cornell University
- Syracuse University
- Bryn Mawr College
- Swarthmore College
- University of Pennsylvania
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Chapter III
- The Education of Woman in the Western States
- Co-Education in the West
- Opening Wedges
- General Argument
- The Social Effects and Tendencies of Co-Education
- Defects and Limitations in the System of Higher Education for Women in the West
- Chapter IV
- The Education of Woman in the Southern States
- Collegiate Education of Women in the South
- The Semi-Colleges
- The Other Female Colleges
- Secondary Instruction
- Normal Schools and Industrial Education
- Conclusion
- Chapter V
- Woman in Literature
- Chapter VI
- Woman in Journalism
- Chapter VII
- Woman in Medicine
- Chapter VIII
- Woman in the Ministry
- Chapter IX
- Woman in Law
- Chapter X
- Woman in the State
- Chapter XI
- Woman in Industry
- Chapter XII
- Charity
- Chapter XIII
- Care of the Sick.
- Hospitals and Training Schools for Nurses Managed Wholly or in Part by Women
- Chapter XIV
- Care of the Criminal
- Spread of Work
- New York Prison Association
- Personal Work
- Reformatory Prisons for Women
- Women on State Boards
- Department of Prison, Jail, And Police Work of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
- Police Matrons
- Past, Present, and Future
- Chapter XV
- Care of the Indian
- Chapter XVI
- Work of Anti-Slavery Women
- Chapter XVII
- Work of the W. C. T. U.
- Chapter XVIII
- The Origin and Application of the Red Cross
- Appendices.
- Appendix A. Chapter II
- Appendix B. Chapter III
- Appendix C. Chapter IV
- Appendix D. Chapter VII
- Appendix E. Chapter X
- Appendix F. Bibliography
- Index
- Blank Page.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Meyer, Annie Nathan Woman's Work in America
- ISBN:
- 9798895303351
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