Author:
Ziparo, Jessica, author.
Imprint:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Descriptionxii, 339 pages : ill. ; 25 cm
Note:We are not playthings -- I wonder if I cannot make application for an appointment too: women join the federal workforce -- Telling her story to a man: applying for government work -- Teapots in the treasury of the nation: gendering work and space -- A strange time to seek a residence in Washington: perils and possibilities of life for female federal clerks -- The picked prostitutes of the land: reputations of female federal employees -- I am now exerting all my thinking powers: women's struggle to retain and to regain federal positions -- What makes us to differ from them?: the argument for equal pay in the nation's capital -- We do not intend to give up.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
