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The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.

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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
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