ABSTRACT
American women experienced a lot of changes from the 1940s through the 1960s, and this is reflected in their participation in the River Basin Surveys (RBS) and the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program (IASP). The Missouri Basin Project (MBP) office, located in Lincoln, Nebraska, administered projects throughout the Missouri River Basin. Information about women on MBP projects was retrieved from a list in the RBS records although some of the information in that list is inaccurate or incomplete. The Glen Canyon Project (GCP) in Utah and Arizona was the largest IASP-sponsored project in the National Park Service (NPS) Southwest Regional Office in Santa Fe. The records of the Athens field office have not been searched except those in the National Anthropological Archives. In general, there were few archaeological field schools in the Southeast, and women were not allowed to do paid fieldwork until passage of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act in 1972.
