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Lois Ross, a tall, slender blonde, grew up in a blue-collar union household. Her strong trade union sympathies and allegiance to working-class values went with her when she made the trip from her home in Bloomfield to the Rutgers College campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey. After graduating in 1977, Ross went to work for the Women in Apprenticeship Program (WAP). She spent the next seven years as an advocate on behalf of women breaking into skilled blue-collar jobs in New York City.
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See Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 40, 42, 69.
The Unicorn Book of 1954, edited by Joseph Laffan Morse (New York: Unicorn Books, 1955), 432.
See Rowbotham, A Century of Women, 436–437; The Decade of Women: A Ms. History of the Seventies (New York: Paragon Books, 1980), 6.
Paul A. Samuelson, Economics (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973), 796.
Women’s Work, Men’s Work: Sex Segregation on the Job, edited by Barbara F. Reskin and Heidi I. Hartmann (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1986), x.
Martha Ackmann, The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight (New York: Random House, 2003).
See Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff (New York: Bantam Books, 1983), 206–207 for a description of “the Right Stuff” in males.
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LaTour, J. (2008). From Economics to Electronics: The Making of an Activist. In: Sisters in the Brotherhoods. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230614079_9
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