Description
Author Gail Collins
Publisher Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition (October 14, 2009)
Binding hardcover with dust jacket
Condition new
Summary
"When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present" by Gail Collins chronicles the profound changes in the lives of American women over five decades. The book explores key events, social movements, and cultural shifts that reshaped women's roles in society, highlighting the challenges and triumphs that marked this transformative era.
A comprehensive mix of oral history and Gail Collins's keen research -- covering politics, fashion, popular culture, economics, sex, families, and work -- When Everything Changed is the definitive book on five crucial decades of progress. The enormous strides made since 1960 include the advent of the birth control pill, the end of "Help Wanted -- Male" and "Help Wanted -- Female" ads, and the lifting of quotas for women in admission to medical and law schools. Gail Collins describes what has happened in every realm of women's lives, partly through the testimonies of both those who made history and those who simply made their way.