ABSTRACT
In 1969 it would have been hard to find a senior history major at any American College who had heard of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a turn-of-the-century feminist. Her experience demonstrates that the women's movement has radically affected the teaching and writing of history, but that women historians have far to go before they achieve employment and salary equality with the men in their profession. The American Historical Association, a bastion of scholarship and legitimacy since 1884, first felt the effects of the women's movement at its 1969 annual convention. A group of about 20 women formed the Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Profession, designed to support the separate but related issues of women in the profession and the field of women's history. A catalog of projects and groups would be endless, but one conclusion is clear: organization, activity, and excitement in the study of history belong to the women's movement.
