In 1970, the average woman had her first child at 21.4; by 2012, it was almost 26, an age by which many young adults are at least a few years deep into jobs or careers. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
In 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 64 percent of mothers with children under six worked. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
More women than ever are having babies at the peak of their careers. When will we stop punishing them for it? Rebecca Traister Read Quote
Scores of African-Americans have written both appreciatively and critically about what ‘The Cosby Show’ meant to them over the years. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
White people loved ‘The Cosby Show,’ especially liberal white people. They loved it because it was a great, funny, well – written, and beautifully performed television show. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
One reason that we have collectively plugged our ears against a decade of dismal revelations about Bill Cosby is that he made lots of Americans feel good about two things we rarely have reason to feel good about: race and gender. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
Though Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton 11 years after Camille Hanks married Bill Cosby, and after having earned her own law degree, the terms of her marriage were also shaped in their own way by a presumption of a husband’s centrality and a wife’s subsidiary nature. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
In 1965, Cosby had become the first black man ever to star in a prime-time television show; he was conscious enough of his non-dissolved, traditional nuclear family that he made it the foundation of his public persona, his comedy act, and eventually of his blockbuster sitcom. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
Camille Hanks, whose upper-middle-class parents both had college degrees, was a student at the University of Maryland planning on a teaching career when she met Bill Cosby, who was seven years her senior. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
The lack of marriage is being blamed for almost every social ill – whether it’s gun violence, whether it’s poverty, whether it’s the dropping birth rate. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
