| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.1

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.1 | The History Cooperative

*Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century.* By Glenna Matthews (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. xvii + 313 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. $55.00, cloth; $22.95, paper.)
Glenna Matthews's Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream thoroughly examines the history of the Silicon Valley, from its beginnings as an agricultural hub, through its evolution into a center for science and technology, to its current role in the world as the heart of the dot.com explosion (and collapse).	1
Matthews focuses on female workers, particularly on immigrants of various nationalities, to demonstrate why and how the valley evolved as it did and also to evaluate its growth in terms of those workers. Did they benefit from the enormous wealth that was generated by the globalization of markets in agriculture, electronics, and high tech? She measured benefits in terms of home and business ownership, political participation, and access to jobs in management and the professions. She found a surprising mixture of successes, failures, and apparent contradictions.	. . .

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