The change was sweeping. In the 1970s, it was still unusual—or unheard-of—for women to be TV reporters, judges, astronauts, soldiers, pastors, or police officers. By the 1980s, it was common; by the 1990s it was accepted (though sometimes grudgingly); and by the 2000s it was nearly taken for granted. This was the trajectory of Boomer women as they moved through adulthood, with the country changing along with them.
