When Everything Changed: The Amazing journey of american women from 1960 to the present, Collins, Gail

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 Clintons 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 Collinss 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 womens lives, partly through the testimonies of both those who made history and those who simply made their way.