Fleming made major scientific discoveries and belonged to the Harvard Computers, a team of women who processed astronomical data at the university.

By the second half of the 19th century, the pace of life in Europe ... police in port and garrison towns to detain any woman ...

Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...

And work it was! Although advocates of female ... In other ways, too, nineteenth-century women were not in fact the fully domestic creatures, literally confined to their households, that the ...

are forced to do both men’s and women’s work. This book is dedicated to them and I hope it will prove useful, as I sincerely wish to assist them in these tasks’. Books by the most popular Polish ...

The first half of the 19th century was a time of great change. Industrialization brought new opportunities for employment, changing ideas of work, and economic cycles of boom and bust. During this ...

Marriage for working-class women was an economic necessity in 19th-century Britain, as they rarely earned enough to support themselves, let alone any children. For widows, children could be ...

The manuscript was Miss Banning’s life’s work, and she yearned to see ... researched her history. But as a woman living in the 19th century, that path was largely closed to her.