Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 1973
Abstract
We're all so busy developing our own women's studies programs, creating new curriculum, hassling over funding, over internal governance and community-related programs, that most of us rarely have time to ask how women's studies affects the work lives of students once they leave the university for full-time participation in the real anti-feminist world. But a program that has been functioning for several years produces graduates: what are they up to? Historically, women in America have been the temporaries in the labor force—though one can be temporary 40 hours a week, for 40 years of one's life. Has women's studies begun to bring to center stage the shadowy figure of the woman worker? Are women beginning to choose deliberately the shape of their work lives, to create strong identities?