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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.

Women's particular experiences continue to shape not just their points of view but their actions, in the United States and around the world.

I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

Women are trying to have it all but are trying to regain control over their time. That's why many women are busting out of the traditional workforce and starting their own businesses.

When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was a perception that women weren't important. And it's true. Women were seen historically as far inferior to men.

Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.