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Grey House Publishing is proud to announce the publication of Working Americans 1810-2015, Volume VI: Women at Work. This second edition updates the sixth volume in the Working Americans series through 2015, profiling the lives of American women how they lived, how they worked, how they thought decade by decade from the 1810s to today.Like the other titles in the series, Working Americans: Women at Work observes the lives of various Americans, decade by decade. This new edition profiles women young and old, from a wide range of geographical and social backgrounds, and from a vast variety of professions. Some profiles focus on fortune, some on fame, some on a regular paycheck, and some on no paycheck at all, but all demonstrate the continuous challenge faced by working women in America whether they pushed papers, pitched baseballs, played the piano, changed public opinion, or joined the Navy.