Lowell Girls to CEOs

Author Melissa Cohen-Nickels
School Baines Middle School

Length of Lesson

(5) 45 minute classes
Abstract Students will learn about the evolution of women in the American workplace through the lens of 5 periods in American History: Lowell Girls, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, World War II, Women in the West, the rise of the female CEO (1970s-Present)
District Ft. Bend ISD
Historical Time Period
  • Progressive Era
  • Civil Rights Movement
Historical Themes
  • Culture
Grade
  • Eight (8)
  • Eleven (11)

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