Illustrations
Plates
| | 1.1 Secretary of Labor James Davis addressing the national conference on women in industry, January 11, 1923 | 9 |
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| | 5.1 “The Woman Worker” poster | 78 |
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| | 6.1 Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins | 96 |
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| | 6.2 Women's Bureau exhibit on minimum wage laws | 106 |
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| | 7.1 “Scientists Might Prefer This, ” the Armstrong Cork Company advocating job evaluation | 134 |
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| | 7.2 Job Evaluation: “How Does the Armstrong Plan Work?” | 135 |
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| | 8.1 President John F. Kennedy signing the Equal Pay Act of 1963 in the White House Oval Office on June 10, 1963 | 162 |
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| | 9.1 “Where Is My 26¢?” | 186 |
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Figures
| | 2.1 Total labor force participation by gender, 1900-2000 | 21 |
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| | 2.2 Labor force participation rates of married women, husband present, by race, 1900-2000 | 24 |
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| | 2.3 Women's labor force participation rates, by age, 1950-90 | 26 |
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| | 2.4 Percentage of family earnings contributed by wives, by ethnic group, 1997 | 32 |
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| | 2.5 Gender-based wage ratio and wage gap, 1955-2000 | 33 |
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| | 9.1 Annual minimum wage earnings compared with weighted average poverty thresholds, 1968-2000 | 185 |
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| | 10.1 A framework for understanding wage setting | 210 |
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Tables
| | 2.1 Labor force composition, 1900-2000 | 19 |
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| | 2.2 Women's civilian labor force participation rates, by marital status, 1900-99 | 24 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labor Market Policies in the United States.
Contributors: Deborah M. Figart - Author, Ellen Mutari - Author, Marilyn Power - Author.
Publisher: Routledge.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2002.
Page number: vii.
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