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.
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I've always been interested in the history of radical feminism - what happened to those women of the 1960s and '70s.
When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.
I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.
The women's movement in the 1970s led more women into the workforce and got them closer to pay equality.
I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
There is certainly greatness in the '60s generation. They changed our attitudes about race in America, which was long overdue. They didn't just stand up and salute when told to go to war. Women finally began to realize a more equal place in our society.
Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.
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 that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn't existed before.
I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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