Educated American Women: Self-Portraits
Nonfiction work
By: Eli Ginzberg and Alice M. Yohalem
Date: 1966
Source: Ginzberg, Eli, and Alice M. Yohalem. Educated American Women: Self-Portraits. New York: Columbia University Press, 1966, 1–9.
About the Author: Eli Ginzberg (1911–2002) was born in New York City. The son of a Talmudist scholar, Ginzberg was drawn to education. He earned degrees from the University of Heidelberg, the University of Grenoble, and Columbia University. In 1935 he joined the Graduate School of Business at Columbia as a faculty member. Ginzberg published widely on economics, healthcare, and education.
Introduction
Women's education was not a new idea in the 1940s and 1950s; in fact, women were attending college in increasing numbers. But society still expected women to marry and raise a family, and it was assumed that mothers would not work at a full-time job outside the...
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