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Full-Text Articles in Women's History
Our Turn: Working Women In The Las Vegas Valley, 1940-1980, Irene B. Scholl Rostine
Our Turn: Working Women In The Las Vegas Valley, 1940-1980, Irene B. Scholl Rostine
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
This thesis describes three types of working women in Las Vegas, NV who performed non traditional women's work and who, through their ingenuity and hard work rose to the top of their fields. The first group of women were the little known women war workers at Basic Magnesium Inc who produced magnesium that was so importanat to the war effort. The second group of women worked in a corporate structure and, hired in entry level positions, were able to break the glass ceiling and rise to positions of managenemt. The third group of women were Realtors in Las Vegas who …
Claiming Citizenship: Las Vegas' Conventional Women's Organizations Establishing Citizenship Through Civic Engagement, Cynthia Cicero
Claiming Citizenship: Las Vegas' Conventional Women's Organizations Establishing Citizenship Through Civic Engagement, Cynthia Cicero
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Many historians of American women portray women's organized civic engagement and work to attain social, economic, and legal equality as feminism. American feminism has been expanded and applied in scholarship. The American feminists of the 1960s wanted to alter the male power structure and redefine conventional notions of womanhood. However, many middle-class women who participated in community and civic organizations valued their roles as wives, mothers, and homemakers, expressing their citizenship and community work as an extension of these roles. Their motivation in pursuing equality was to gain full citizenship status.
In this thesis, I argue that viewing women's civic …