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　Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestsellingauthor, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives overthe past 50 years, with her usual "sly wit and unfussy style"(People).　　
　　When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when most American womenhad to get their husbands' permission to apply for a credit card.It ends in 2008 with Hillary Clinton's historic presidentialcampaign. This was a time of cataclysmic change, when, after fourhundred years, expectations about the lives of American women weresmashed in just a generation.　　

Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling
author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over
the past 50 years, with her usual "sly wit and unfussy style"
(People).　　 
　　When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when most American women
had to get their husbands' permission to apply for a credit card.
It ends in 2008 with Hillary Clinton's historic presidential
campaign. This was a time of cataclysmic change, when, after four
hundred years, expectations about the lives of American women were
smashed in just a generation.　　 
　　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.　　 
　　Picking up where her highly lauded book America's Women left off,
When Everything Changed is a dynamic story, told with the
down-to-earth, amusing, and agenda-free tone for which this beloved
New York Times columnist is known. Older readers, men and women
alike, will be startled as they are reminded of what their lives
once were--"Father Knows Best" and "My Little Margie" on TV; daily
weigh-ins for stewardesses; few female professors; no women in the
Boston marathon, in combat zones, or in the police department.
Younger readers will see their history in a rich new way. It has
been an era packed with drama and dreams--some dashed and others
realized beyond anyone's imagining.

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