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When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present (Hardcover)

By: Gail Collins (Author)

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A follow-up to America's Women by a former New York Times editorial page editor chronicles the revolution of women's civil rights throughout the past half century, drawing on oral history and research in a variety of disciplines while celebrating Hillary Clinton's recent presidential campaign. 75,000 first printing.

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Columnist Gail Collins offers a through and engaging assessment of the role of women in American society over half a century, as she assesses how opportunities have changed since before the women's movement. Collins, who was there and knows, presents a prodigious amount of case studies and oral histories from women who were there. Many of them relate what today are stunning examples of the exclusion of women from key workplace experiences. Collins's research covers a wide range of experience and realms of everyday life--fashion, entertainment, schooling, home. Work, the media, etc. She notes key markers, including the fact that in 2008, a woman was a serious candidate for the presidency.

Picking up where her previous successful, and highly lauded book, America's Women, 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 New York Times 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.
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 BarnardCollege, "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 Gallup 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.

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