| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Linda Eisenmann. Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945–1965. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2006. Pp. viii, 280. $45.00.
This volume provides a bracing reminder of the pervasive assumptions regarding gender roles that governed policy making in the period after World War II. While it is true that women professionals have yet to achieve parity with men in numbers, leadership, or compensation, Linda Eisenmann's discussion of higher education policy demonstrates the fundamental shift that has occurred in the relationships among gender, opportunity, and domesticity. While much of the ground covered in this book will be familiar to students of U.S. history, Eisenmann suggests that, at least in terms of higher education policy, women have indeed come a long way.	1
A former assistant director of Radcliffe's Bunting Institute, Eisenmann approaches higher education from a policy perspective. The book began as a thirtieth anniversary tribute to the Bunting Institution but evolved into an overview and critique of the major organizations involved in educational policy in the postwar years. Her subjects range from the American Council on Education's Commission on the Education of Women (ACE CEW), the American Association of University Women (AAUW), the National Association of Deans of Women (NADW), and the President's Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) to major national foundations including Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller. She explores each of these groups in some detail, particularly their research on women's employment and proposals for job training and career preparation.	. . .

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