The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The women's movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we'd break open the doors that were closed to women, and with the other part, we'd walk through, transforming society for men and women. Turns out it was a lot easier to open the doors.
Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.
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.
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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.
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.
I've always been interested in the history of radical feminism - what happened to those women of the 1960s and '70s.
And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
Feminists say no-fault divorce was a large hurdle on the path to female liberation. They apparently don't consult the deepest hopes or greatest fears of young women.
I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.