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AAUW Report. Research shows that policies developed to foster the equitable treatment of students and the creation of gender equitable educational environments can make a difference - if they are strongly worded and vigorously enforced.

A collection of essays examining the Holocaust from the perspective of gender.

To recall that "Hitler gave me a job when I was out of work" (rather than that "Hitler genocidally murdered 6 million Jews") seems a perverse falsification of history. This memoir of the 1930s is just such a falsification and, for this very reason, is naively truthful.

The account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and how their military service affected their friendships, their personal lives, and their families.

At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee had thousands of residents and consumed more electricity than New York City. Young women from small towns across America were enticed to come there by war-ending work and solid wages. Kept in the dark about the true nature of their work they would not find out the secret until the end of the war. The women of Oak Ridge, also known as Atomic City to a select few, were indispensable to the winning of World War II. Tens of thousands of women and men contributed to the making of the atom bomb.

The author lost her husband in an Apache army helicopter crash in Iraq twenty years after her own mother was widowed due to a plane crash which Artis survived but her father did not. She manages to overcome two generations of tragedy to go on with her life at the age of twenty-six.

Covering the era from 1941 to 1945, examines the events, both on the homefront and overseas, surrounding the American involvement in World War II including American heroism and weaponry.

Profiles American women who served in the armed forces during the Persian Gulf War, where more women were deployed to combat and in more capabilities than in any previous war.