Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office 1870-1930 (Gender Relations in the American Experience)

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Winner of the Sierra Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians In Engendering Business Angel Kwolek-Folland challenges the notion that neutral market forces shaped American business arguing instead for the central importance of gender in the rise of the modern corporation. She presents a detailed view of the gendered development of management and male-female job segmentation while also examining the role of gender in such areas as architectural space office clothing and office workers leisure activities.