false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255612745m/6192234.jpg 6192234 2 Picking up where her previous successful, and highly lauded book, <EM><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America's Women, </st1:place></st1:country-region></EM>left off, Gail Collins recounts the sea change women have experienced since 1960. A comprehensive mix of oral history and Collins's keen research, this is the definitive book about five crucial decades of progress, told with the down-to-earth, amusing, and agenda-free tone this beloved <EM>New York Times</EM> columnist is known for. The interviews with women who have lived through these transformative years include an advertising executive in the 60s who was not allowed to attend board meetings that took place in the all-male dining room; and an airline stewardess who remembered being required to bend over to light her passengers' cigars on the men-only 'Executive Flight' from New York to Chicago.<BR><BR>We, too, may have forgotten the enormous strides made by women since 1960--and the rare setbacks. "Hell yes, we have a quota [7%]" said a medical school dean in 1961. "We do keep women out, when we can." At a pre-graduation party at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Barnard</st1:PlaceName><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, "they handed corsages to the girls who were engaged and lemons to those who weren't." In 1960, two-thirds of women 18-60 surveyed by <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Gallup</st1:place></st1:City> didn't approve of the idea of a female president. Until 1972, no woman ran in the Boston Marathon, the year when Title IX passed, requiring parity for boys and girls in school athletic programs (and also the year after Nixon vetoed the childcare legislation passed by congress). What happened during the past fifty years--a period that led to the first woman's winning a Presidential Primary--and why? The cataclysmic change in the lives of American women is a story Gail Collins seems to have been born to tell. 6372533 book 14 10 2009 When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present total:38|5:18|4:15|3:5|2:0|1:0| 38 165 608 28 5 0 false false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 19:17:03 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 19:21:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 17:09:49 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 07:25:45 -0800 2009 ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 16:12:13 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 20:03:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun May 24 08:05:58 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 18 17:45:01 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 20:40:41 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 14:03:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 21 14:01:41 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 14:16:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 12:24:30 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 12:30:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 18 20:28:25 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 20:30:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 11:26:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 07:20:25 -0700 2009
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