When Everything Changed The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present

by Collins, Gail

• ISBN13: 9780316059541
• ISBN10: 0316059544
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-14
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Summary

WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED begins in 1960 when American women actually had to get their husband's permission to apply for a credit card. In the years since, American women have witnessed exciting changes, expectations about what their lives could be smashed in just a generation. The story ends in the 21st century, with a woman winning a Presidential primary. This book tells us how women got from there to here, in politics, fashion, economics, sex, families and work. A comprehensive mix of oral history and Gail Collins's keen research, WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED is the definitive book on five crucial decades of progress, told with the down-to-earth, amusing and agenda-free tone for which this beloved New York Times columnist is known. Collins spoke with the women who lived these transformative years, including 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 was required to bend over to light her passengers' cigars on a men-only 'Executive Flight'. Picking up where her highly-lauded book America's Women left off, WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED is the dynamic story of cataclysmic change, a story Gail Collins seems to have been born to tell.

Author Biography

Gail Collins-áwas-áthe Editorial Page Editor for the-áNew York Times from 2001-2007--the first woman to have held that position. She currently writes a column for the Time's Op-Ed page twice weekly.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
1960
Repudiating Rosie	p. 11
The Way We Lived	p. 25
Housework	p. 43
When Everything Changed
The Ice Cracks	p. 63
What Happened?	p. 95
Civil Rights	p. 106
The Decline of the Double Standard	p. 149
WomenÆs Liberation	p. 178
Following Through
Backlash	p. 213
ôYouÆre Gonna Make It After Allö	p. 240
Work and Children	p. 271
The 19S0S - Having It All	p. 291
The 1990s - Settling for Less?	p. 330
The New Millennium	p. 351
Hillary and Sarahà and Tahita	p. 375
Epilogue	p. 394
Acknowledgments	p. 406
Notes	p. 410
Bibliography	p. 441
Index	p. 453
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