Explore the history of women in America

What you will learn

• How key figures and events have challenged the role of women in the home and workplace
• How ideas, such as democracy, citizenship, liberty, patriotism, and equality have differently shaped the lives of women and men
• How women of different races and classes have experienced work, both inside and outside the home
• How historians of women and gender study America’s past, including hands-on opportunities to practice analyzing primary sources from the present and the past
• How women’s history has developed and changed over time
• How women’s participation in, exclusion from, and impact on American economic, political, and social life have altered American history

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