Quotes from Liza Mundy

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these always paid less than men's jobs did.

Schoolteachers were smart, educated, accustomed to hard work, unused to high pay, simultaneously youthful and mature, and

If the Navy could possibly have used dogs or ducks or monkeys, certain of the older admirals would probably have greatly preferred them to women," Gildersleeve acidly remarked later. The

One electrical company asked for twenty female engineers from Goucher, with the added request, "Select beautiful ones for we don't want them on our hands after the war.

Not to be ministers' wives, but to be ministers.

with Japan and was massing troops to attack.

It was a rare moment in American history—unprecedented—when educated women were not only wanted but competed for.

During World War II, code breaking would come into its own as one of the most fruitful forms of intelligence that exists.