(Virtual) “Women’s Work”

Via Zoom. Presented by the New York Historical, in celebration of Women’s History Month.

What is “women’s work?” How have broad trends in American economic, legal, and political history encouraged women to take certain jobs and restricted them from “men’s work?” How have race, ethnicity, social class, legal status, sexual orientation, and gender presentation impacted these distinctions?

The Center for Women’s History showcases approximately 45 objects from New York Historical’s own Museum and Library collections to demonstrate how ‘women’s work’ defies categorization. The items range from a 19th-century mahogany cradle to a 20th-century doctor’s dissection kit to a pinback button with the message “Shirley Chisholm for President.”

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