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This document describes an interdisciplinary English and history course on women and work in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is designed for 11th and 12th grade students and it includes ideas suitable for use with college bound or vocationally oriented students. A major objective of the course is to help students analyze their ideas on work and job stereotyping so that they will combat traditional limitations placed on women in the work force. The unit begins by presenting sources of statistics for describing the current earnings gap between men and women. Then suggestions are given for student assignments on analyzing the portrayal of women in television. Much of the unit is devoted to an analysis of the middle class ideal of a lady as contrasted with the real life of women exhibited through occupational types: houseworker/motherworker, farmworker laborer, frontier builder, industrial worker, plantation mistress, slave, teacher, lawyer, and doctor. The unit concludes with a section on women and the law. Teachers are encouraged to have students read about sexist legal decisions and about workers' civil rights. These are used as an introduction to a discussion on the Equal Rights Amendment. This course description suggests many appropriate books for each of the themes in the unit. (Author/BC)