Women's Work
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
by:
Liza Mundy
3.96 avg rating — 29,156 ratings 3. 
Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them
by:
Siân Evans
3.74 avg rating — 1,068 ratings 4. 
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
by:
Kate Moore
4.16 avg rating — 176,378 ratings 
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
by:
Stephanie Land
3.86 avg rating — 109,537 ratings 7. 
An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I
by:
Chris Dubbs
3.77 avg rating — 73 ratings 
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Frontier Teachers: Stories Of Heroic Women Of The Old West, First Edition
by:
Chris Enss
3.77 avg rating — 102 ratings 10. 
Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty
by:
Amanda Freeman
4.10 avg rating — 117 ratings 11. 
Coffee, Tea or Me? The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses
by:
Trudy Baker
3.28 avg rating — 1,405 ratings 12. 
The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
by:
Nathalia Holt
4.18 avg rating — 3,183 ratings 13. 
The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II 4.20 avg rating — 2,268 ratings
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The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail
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Kristen Green
3.58 avg rating — 866 ratings 15. 
Medicine Women: A Pictoral History of Women Healers
by:
Elisabeth Brooke
3.76 avg rating — 82 ratings 
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Women Healers of the World: The Traditions, History, and Geography of Herbal Medicine
by:
Holly Bellebuono
4.12 avg rating — 89 ratings 
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They Called Them Angels: American Military Nurses of World War II
by:
Kathi Jackson
4.20 avg rating — 45 ratings 20. 
To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
by:
Tera W. Hunter
4.18 avg rating — 660 ratings 20. 
Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
by:
Julia Cooke
3.65 avg rating — 13,842 ratings 
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More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave 4.07 avg rating — 410 ratings
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Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights
by:
Mikki Kendall
4.11 avg rating — 2,072 ratings 
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The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
by:
Loren Grush
4.33 avg rating — 6,176 ratings 30. 
Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries 4.25 avg rating — 253 ratings
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The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet 4.03 avg rating — 1,286 ratings
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The Spirit of Our Work: Black Women Teachers (Re)member
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Cynthia Dillard
4.55 avg rating — 31 ratings 33. 
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe 3.76 avg rating — 18,161 ratings
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Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie
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Ellen Cassedy
4.02 avg rating — 94 ratings 35. 
Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure
by:
Amanda Adams
3.74 avg rating — 207 ratings 
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Fighting for YES!: The Story of Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann 4.39 avg rating — 361 ratings
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Working Women's Music: The Songs and Struggles of Women in the Cotton Mills, Textile Plants, and Needle Trades
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Evelyn Alloy
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912
by:
Ardis Cameron
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28 ratings 41. 
Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South 4.25 avg rating — 379 ratings
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On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union
by:
Daisy Pitkin
4.25 avg rating — 429 ratings 43. 
Discover Her Art: Women Artists and Their Masterpieces
by:
Jean Leibowitz
4.52 avg rating — 25 ratings 44. 
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer
by:
Kathy Kleiman
4.05 avg rating — 502 ratings 
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Courageous Women of the Vietnam War: Medics, Journalists, Survivors, and More 3.96 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times 4.31 avg rating — 2,717 ratings
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Women, Work and Protest: A Century of U.S. Women's Labor History
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Ruth Milkman
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings 49. 
Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States, 20th Anniversary Edition 3.89 avg rating — 98 ratings
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
by:
Lucy Adlington
4.08 avg rating — 17,687 ratings 52. 
Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas 3.22 avg rating — 1,624 ratings
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We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
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Laguana Gray
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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On the Job: The Untold Story of America's Work Centers and the New Fight for Wages, Dignity, and Health 4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
by:
Kate Zernike
4.41 avg rating — 3,046 ratings 58. 
Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World 3.77 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Call the Midwife: A Labour of Love: Ten Years of Life, Love and Laughter
by:
Stephen McGann
4.58 avg rating — 270 ratings 61. 
The Wayward Writer: Summon Your Power to Take Back Your Story, Liberate Yourself from Capitalism, and Publish Like a Superstar
by:
Ariel Gore
4.46 avg rating — 39 ratings 
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Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale
by:
Kate Lister
4.18 avg rating — 747 ratings 
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The Jet Sex: Airline Stewardesses and the Making of an American Icon
by:
Victoria Vantoch
4.19 avg rating — 128 ratings 69. 
Women's Work, Men's Property: The Origins of Gender and Class
by:
Stephanie Coontz
4.02 avg rating — 43 ratings 
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Reform, Labor, and Feminism: Margaret Dreier Robins and the Women's Trade Union League liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Women Out of Bounds: The Lives and Work of History's Career Women
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Jane Robinson
3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings 72. 
Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission 4.33 avg rating — 664 ratings
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The Incredible Nellie Bly: Journalist, Investigator, Feminist, and Philanthropist
by:
Luciana Cimino
3.63 avg rating — 850 ratings 
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Pandora's daughters: the secret history of enterprising women
by:
jane-robinson
3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings 
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Mary Seacole: The Most Famous Black Woman of the Victorian Age
by:
Jane Robinson
3.45 avg rating — 76 ratings 
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She Was Aye Workin': Memories of Tenement Women in Edinburgh and Glasgow
by:
Helen Clark
4.26 avg rating — 53 ratings 
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Histories of Women's Work in Global Sport: A Man’s World?
by:
Georgia Cervin
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
by:
Rachel Swaby
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,982 ratings 
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Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
by:
Kathy Peiss
3.82 avg rating — 833 ratings 
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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South 4.29 avg rating — 4,915 ratings
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Virginia Apgar: Innovative Female Physician and Inventor of the Apgar Score
by:
Melanie Ann Apel
3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings 98. 
A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
by:
Patricia Fara
3.62 avg rating — 205 ratings 100. 
No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers
by:
Barbara Hodgson
3.69 avg rating — 214 ratings