Status Updates From The Stepford Wives

I like the writing, light and contemporary. The dialog feels very natural. I only started today and I'm about 2/3 through.

"She wanted to say something friendly and welcoming—the woman was surely the wife or daughter of the black family the Welcome Wagon lady had mentioned—but she didn’t want to be white-liberal patronizing. Would she say something if the woman weren’t black? Yes, in a situation like this she—“

"sitting cross-legged on the grass outside, her face trayed on a sun reflector"

{Chortling} a sun reflector! I know it's the 70s but when was this written exactly?
1972. Wow.
Reminds me of watching The Exorcist at an anniversary showing some years back. A doctor was smoking IN THE HOSPITAL while talking to the possessed girl's parents, and moviegoers in the theater started laughing.

...the New Projects Committee, to which he had been appointed...
They talked about the Christmas-Toys project and the Preserve-the-Landscape project...
The men talked about new projects again.

This is weird to think and somehow sexist, in multiple directions? But it seems odd, now, to have men-only discussing these topics. It seems like something women (or nonbinar) would mostly run, or not much would happen?

the scariest combination of words in the english language has got to be “Men’s Association”