When Women Didn’t Count: The Chronic Mismeasurement and Marginalization of American Women in Federal Statistics

When Women Didn’t Count: The Chronic Mismeasurement and Marginalization of American Women in Federal Statistics

How many women were the head of their households in 1930? How many were single mothers in 1890? Librarians have a desire to answer every question that comes their way, but some questions have no accurate answers. This is especially true of government statistics on women, as Lopresti demonstrates thi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Dttp (College Park, Md.) Md.), 2018-01, Vol.45 (4), p.32-32
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:How many women were the head of their households in 1930? How many were single mothers in 1890? Librarians have a desire to answer every question that comes their way, but some questions have no accurate answers. This is especially true of government statistics on women, as Lopresti demonstrates this beautifully in When Women Didn’t Count.
ISSN:0091-2085
0091-2085
DOI:10.5860/dttp.v45i4.6569