In the late 1940s and early 1950s ... more married women were in the labor force than at any previous time in American history. Domesticity and Money Pressures The reality of many middle- and ...

Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, salesmen accounted for a large part of commerce in both the countryside and in growing American ... business for women. Throughout the 1940s women ...

[37] Beginning in 1940 and continuing for the next 10 years ... who was still delivering a large number of African American women in the South. The Children's Bureau provided consultation to ...