Women's History Month 2024 - Women at Work: Economic Growth Past, Present and Future

True stories about Women at Work for all ages.

Updated October 25, 2024
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Class A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
Land, Stephanie.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Good Morning America Book Club Pick A New York Times Most Anticipated Books of Fall From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely...
Game changers : the unsung heroines of sports history
Schiot, Molly
Paper Book
"The embrace of women's sports sometimes feels almost like a political act...Molly Schiot's Game Changers: The Unsung Heroines of Sports History is so valuable." --The Wall Street Journal "A thoughtful, exhaustively researched, and long...
Holding it together : how women became America's safety net
Calarco, Jessica McCrory
Paper Book
America runs on women - women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force, acclaimed Sociologist Jessica Calarco lays bare the devastating consequences of our status quo. Holding It Together draws on five years of research in...
Into the planet : my life as a cave diver
Heinerth, Jill
Paper Book
From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we...
Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Paper Book
In this now classic work, Barbara Ehrenreich, our sharpest and most original social critic, goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara...
Women in sports : 50 fearless athletes who played to win
Ignotofsky, Rachel
Paper Book
A charmingly illustrated and inspiring book, Women in Sports highlights the achievements and stories of fifty notable women athletes--from well-known figures like tennis player Billie Jean King and gymnast Simone Biles, to lesser-known athletes like skateboarding pioneer Patti McGee and Toni...

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