Having read two books back to back about World War Two pilots and nurses, I found only two similarities: They’re both fiction based on fact and they’re both about women. The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg is funny and focuses on one of my pet peeves: how women rarely got (and often […]
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Give women more money!
I just saw something on the ABC Evening News that drives home the stupidity and cruelty of paying women less than men. A middle-aged woman with a 7-year-old daughter is struggling to keep her family afloat while caring for her 53-year-old husband plagued with early onset Alzheimer’s. The problem–other than emotional chaos? She earns one-fifth […]
Collins pens a winner on American women
“Amazing” is often overused, but author and New York Times columnist Gail Collins uses it powerfully in her book title, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present. An enlightening and energizing read, Collins opens with the tale of 28-year-old Lois Rabinowitz who in 1960 was thrown out of […]
