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...name is Marabel Morgan, and her sole transgression is that she is the author of two treacly and wildly popular books, Total Woman and its newly released sequel Total Joy, which argue that every housewife can find happiness by pampering and submitting to her husband. Total Woman, with one pink rose on its cover, had few ads or reviews when it appeared in 1973 from the venerable religious publishing house of Fleming H. Revell, but a housewives' grapevine spread its message until sales reached a phenomenal 3 million copies (and still climbing). Total Joy is already moving...
...PINK COLLAR WORKERS...
...that what such women do is vastly undervalued. To assemble her disquieting portrait of the work life of the average woman, Howe interviewed scores of women, met with unions and management and even took a job as a sales clerk. The vast majority of women, she writes, are in "pink collar" occupations: beautician, office worker, sales clerk, waitress. Among the problems contributing to their generally low wages: too many applicants and not enough jobs, indifferent unions, and company policy predicated on "A and P" (attrition and pregnancy) to hold down the office payroll. Wherever she can, Howe skillfully animates...
Married. Peter Sellers, 51, zany comedian who plays the bumbling Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies; and Lynne Frederick, 22, a British actress; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Paris. Said the bride: "We got married in secret because I think all the best marriages start that...
Nevertheless, Pink Collar Workers is a sound addition to the literature of women that has emerged in the past few years. Although she is not completely successful, Howe's attempt to chronicle the perspective of that silent majority of women in the labor force is a useful one; her effort to give body to the statistics gives them a force that is lacking in the economist's graphs...