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Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling publisher, recounts the astounding trend in women's lives within the last 50 years, with her usual "sly wit and unfussy style" (People).
When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when most American women were required to get their husbands' authorization to apply for a credit card. It ends in 2008 with Hillary Clinton's historical presidential campaign. This was a time of cataclysmic change, when, after 500 years, prospects about the lives of American women were smashed in just a generation.
A detailed mix of oral history and Gail Collins's keen research--covering politics, fashion, popular culture, economics, love-making, families, and work--When Everything Changed is the definitive publication on five critical decades of progress. The enormous strides made since 1960 include the development of the birth control pill, the end of "Help Wanted--Male" and "Help Wanted--Female" advertising, and the lifting of quotas for ladies in admission to medical and legislation schools. Gail Collins identifies what has happened in every realm of women's lives, partially through the testimonies of both those who made history and those who simply made their way.
Picking up where her highly lauded publication America's Women kept off, When Everything Changed is a energetic story, informed with the down-to-earth, amusing, and agenda-free shade for which this beloved New York Times columnist is known. Older readers, women and men equally, will be startled because they are reminded of what their lives once were--"Father Has learned Best" and "My Little Margie" on Tv set; daily weigh-ins for stewardesses; few feminine professors; no ladies in the Boston marathon, in fight areas, or in the police department. Younger viewers will dsicover their history in a abundant new way. It has been an era packed with drama and dreams--some dashed while others recognized beyond anyone's imagining.
