100 million people worked on the transcontinental railroad
Women's wages were lowered. They worked crappy hours.
Women worked jobs that had been held almost exclusively by men.
8o to 90 percent
Florence worked to improve social and working conditions for women, including fair wages. She helped found the NAACP, worked diligently for women's suffrage, and helped FDR with the establishment of many of the New Deal programs.
I asked Carrie this when we worked in a Walmart in the 1980s in Bel-Air, she said she got 5% of the gross, and that she was due her break.
It was about 35%, and it kept on rising as the years went on. This is because after WW1, women had gotten a taste of the workforce, and some didn't want to leave.
When women started to work they worked in factories. They worked long hours for little pay.
The answer will depend on what exactly you are trying to measure:working women in the US as a percentage of women in the US,women working in the US as a percentage of women working in the world,working women in the US as a percentage of worker in the US.There are probably other possibilities.
Barney Miller
1980s
Women who worked as lumberjacks were commonly called lumberjills. Not many women did this type of work. Most of them worked as lumberjills in Britain during World War II.
It would depend on the initial percentage.
Women worked in many factories and farms in the war.
approxmately 80,000 men and women worked in law enforcement in the usa in the year 2000
women
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