In these 34 selections, women work — as they do in real life, but as they rarely do in standard literary anthologies. Such writers as Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston, Tillie Olsen, Alice Walker, Sara Orne Jewett, and Sholem Asch capture the intensity of women's work experience, paid and unpaid, inside and outside the home, including their work for social change.