Between 1920 and 1940, increasing proportions of urban Italian and Jewish women gave birth under the supervision of doctors in clinics and hospitals and limited the number of children they bore. We ...

Anna Brewster and 20 other women formed the Italian Women’s Civic Club in 1919. Brewster, who wasn’t Italian, served as president of the club for several years. The club will celebrate its centennial ...

March is Women's History Month. One of the most important times in the history of women in the United States was the 1920s, when former rules of etiquette were discarded and women demanded the ...

In the 1920s, many women became more comfortable in their skin. But the facts of life remained in short supply. (George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress) American women still have fewer ...

It’s a story that many New Jersey residents may not be familiar with – the story of young women in the 1920s who were sickened by factory conditions in the Garden State. Their story is being told in a ...