The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
Gail Collins
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every... →
When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally... →
The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the... →
How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and... →
Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think... →
In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand... →
There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle... →
When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair... →
Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You... →