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Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 1-10

Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 1-10

Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University, edX, Elaine Tyler May, Media, Nick Juravich, People, Resources, Video, Videos, Women Have Always Worked, Women LaborJanuary 28, 2022

The following are video previews from the edX course “Women Have Always Worked” presented by Alice Kessler-Harris and Columbia University.

Welcome to Women Have Always Worked! | Why Women’s History?
Introduction to Course 2 | Wage Work for Women Citizens: 1870–1920
Introduction to Course 3 | Negotiating a Changing World: 1920–1950

Introduction to Course 4 | Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018

The Tension of the 1950s | The Woman Citizen in a Cold War World
Women’s Work Inside and Outside the Home in the 1950s with Elaine Tyler May
Redlining with Elaine Tyler May
Suburbanization with Nick Juravich
Fear of the Foreign | The Woman Citizen in a Cold War World
The Cold War with Elaine Tyler May
New Skills and New Workers | The Woman Citizen in a Cold War
Consumerism with Nick Juravich
Domesticity & Its Implications for Black and White Women with Elaine T. May
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Women Have Always Worked: Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018.
An exploration from an online edX course.

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