In Pursuit of Equity

A major new work by a leading women's historian and a study of how a "gendered imagination" has shaped social policy in America. Illustrations.

Alice Kessler-Harris is the author of Out to Work, A Woman's Wage and Women Have Always Worked. From featured speaker at a special White House symposium, to expert guest on the PBS documentary "The Measured Century," she has been a leading advocate of women's rights in the United States. She teaches in the Department of History and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University.