The women’s movement in the 1970s led more women into the workforce and got them closer to pay equality. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
The End of Men’ was an incendiary title, but the actual book was very sympathetic to men. It was very invested in a lot of the challenges men are facing with unemployment and the economy changing because of technology. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
The first big impact that feminism in the 1960s and ’70s had was a big divorce boom in the ’70s and ’80s. That, in part, had an impact on how the children of that divorce boom viewed marriage. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
In 2008, Clinton and Obama were similar politicians. Obama was definitely advertised as the more progressive candidate, and that’s part of why more progressive people – including women – went for him. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was true until after World War II. But middle-class white women married less and later. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
Plenty of the women who were single in the nineteenth century wrote about their desire to evade marriage. Marriage was scary in a lot of ways. It often involved having a lot of kids, losing your autonomy, being in service to a husband and children who were often born at an unremitting pace without the benefit of modern medicine. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
Look at somebody like Margaret Sanger, who was married young and had kids but then left her husband and wound up living a kind of single life as she got into the founding of what would become Planned Parenthood. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
My favorite moment of the 2012 election was the debate question where they asked Romney and Obama what they would do to stem gun violence, and Romney’s answer was you should marry someone. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
The Daily Show,’ which was created by women, Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg, has earned quite a bit of ink for the fact that it’s written mostly by men. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
You know how few movies there are in the world about women and their work? I mean, it’s like ‘Silkwood’ and ‘Erin Brokovich.’ There are exceptions, but they are so exceptional. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
