New Gail Collins Book

I am reading the new Gail Collins’ book, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present.

So far, she has two references to women’s pages. In the first, she references women’s pages as a limitation for women journalists in the 1960s. This I would basically agree with – although some women’s page journalists saw great advantages in writing for these sections.

In the second reference (pg 351), she credits Betty Friedan and the women’s liberation movement for eliminating the women’s pages. I would counter that it was much more complicated than that – something my research is revealing.

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