Freelance photographer-journalist Betty Medsger, school librarian Sharon Prah, steel plant foreman Patricia Franzen, and automobile assembly plant welder Joan Wilson discuss the effects on children of working mothers, the response of men to the working woman, their reasons for working, and the life of women in non-traditional jobs. You can also watch this video in our main National Archives online catalog.
American Working Women and Social Change
- 1975
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This primary source comes from the Records of the U.S. Information Agency.
National Archives Identifier: 50554
Full Citation: Motion Picture 306.4323; American Women and Social Change – Women at Work; 1975; Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities , 1982 – 1999; Records of the U.S. Information Agency, Record Group 306; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/working-women-change/, April 15, 2026]
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