Women’s Auxiliary (CIO), 33
Women’s Bureau, U.S., 10–13, 14, 17, 27–28, 29 , 32, 37, 49, 78
women’s centers, 77
Women’s Council (IUE), 39
Women’s Department (UAW), 6–7, 47
“women’s jobs,” 25, 30–31, 37–39, 60, 127–30, 199
women’s liberation movement, 69–79, 169–70, 206–7, 209
Women’s Liberation Rock Band, 136
women’s magazines, 73–74, 94, 179–80
women’s schools, 140
Women’s Status Bill, 37, 40–41, 54
women’s studies, 140, 151, 161, 174, 176, 201
Women’s Teach-in (1970), 62
Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL), 12–13, 14, 16, 21, 22, 27
women’s writing, 139–40
“womyn’s music,” 137
Woolworth’s sit-down strike (1937), xxii, 1–2, 17
Working America, 78
working class, xv, 5, 6, 13, 18–19, 33, 37–38, 62–64, 74–75, 92–100, 133, 135, 182
working conditions, 11–12, 14, 31, 34, 93, 131–32, 193, 194, 227
working hours, 31, 34, 193, 194
Working Women’s Department (AFL-CIO), 78
work-life balance, xv, xx, xxi, 19, 29–30, 127–30, 152, 161, 168–69, 181, 192–203, 218–19, 229
World Health Organization (WHO), 210
World War II, xii, 23–25, 24 , 38, 133
Wounded Knee occupation (1973), 98
Wyatt, Addie, 6, 7–9, 8 , 20, 25–26, 27, 38, 44, 45, 50, 55, 62
xenophobia, 187
XX Factor, The: How the Rise of Working Women Has Created a Far Less Equal World (Wolf), 200
Yale Law School, 51
Yale University, 147, 155
Year of the Woman (1992), 150, 217
York University, 203
Young, Ruth, 20
Young Communist League, 20
Young Feminists Movement Namibia (Y-Fem), 211
Young Lords Party, 95, 115
Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), 11, 18
Young Women’s Project, 160, 190
Yousafzai, Malala, 212–13
YouTube, 174–75, 210
Zerlina (rape survivor), 216–17