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...WOMEN'S MOVEMENT in recent years has focused on bold firsts for women in every area, from West Point to the Little League to gubernatorial posts. But the spotlight always hits positions that have traditionally been filled by men. In Pink Collar Workers, Louise Kapp Howe points out that the spotlight has missed center stage: most women still hold jobs that have always been considered women's work...
...Pink Collar Workers, Howe has tried to fill this gap. While statistics set the stage for her argument, the bulk of the book is a series of interviews with women in five overwhelmingly female lines of work--beautician, sales workers, waitress, office worker and homemaker. In all but one case, Howe got her information by spending time in one establishment which served as a paradigm for the industry; in the one exception, she actually worked as a sales clerk in "Ladies' Coats." She interweaves descriptions of specific working conditions and discussions of problems faced nationwide by women in each line...
Nevertheless, Pink Collar Workers is a sound addition to the literature of women that has emerged in the past few years. Although she is not completely successful, Howe's attempt to chronicle the perspective of that silent majority of women in the labor force is a useful one; her effort to give body to the statistics gives them a force that is lacking in the economist's graphs...
Temperature rising as he flashed his badge and journeyed upstairs to the press conference. It was in a small room, with little sunlight and tight around the collar. The speaker's table was engulfed by a grotesque blob of lenses and flesh and cigars and cameras and elbows and underarms. In the middle of the frantic enterprise she appeared. Like a jelly donut atop an anthill. They swarmed...
...catalogue is this curious little premium: Would you like to be cox of the HARVARD CREW for an hour at a time to be arranged with Coach Parker? $150 Who, disguised as a mild-mannered crew coach, disrobes backstage at Symphony each Saturday evening to reveal a stiff white collar caked with stale rosin from last weekend's manic rendition of Bruckner's eighth? Seems just about everyone is in on the adventure. And who could resist? With the opportunity to test your skills in the stern of a Harvard boat, you might even find yourself waiting in line behind...