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The steadily increasing number of women working outside the home is having an effect on one of the nation’s most prominent volunteer organizations, the American Red Cross.
Since its founding by Clara Barton more than 100 years ago, the Red Cross has relied primarily on women to fill the ranks of its volunteers, which now number nearly 1,oOftftflJI i natfcrfally.- ■ Obviously,
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