Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grown. About half of the wives work part-time or as volunteers. Given the goals of most women 25 years ago, even the one-fourth of the women who do work full time is a larger number than their husbands would have expected. Trustman says he "never met one woman here who had any interest in having a career. Harvard was just an esoteric hobby for them. They got jobs if they did not get married right away and a job was 'good' or 'bad' depending on the likelihood of meeting a marriageable man there...
Trustman, who divorced his first wife and remarried, believes that the "passive acceptance of women's roles then was devastating. All of a sudden, a woman was supposed to maintain a house and a social life, bear and raise children and preserve herself as an attractive female for the rest of her life, to the exclusion of everything else. It was the source of suicidal depressions and huge explosions" among many of the couples Trustman knows...
...came to grips with the fact that for me there was not going to be any wife and kids, and that were I ever to have what I'd thought I wanted--the 'house with the white picket fence'--the partner there would be a man rather than a woman," Alvin H. Baum Jr. '52 writes...
...thought the rules were stupid but at that time we never doubted that that was the way things were--it really is ludicrous," Brody recalls. The rules weren't always strictly observed, although Brody doesn't recall any occasions when either he or any of his friends kept a woman in the dorm overnight. But, he says, "you could screw in the afternoon and that was happening a lot. We also had a car and so there was always the back seat." Trustman says his whole generation "learned to be sexually active between 6 and 8 p.m. The style...
...made her mark in television, directing the first 22 episodes of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and an episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show that was nominated for an Emmy. But now Joan Darling has switched to the no woman's land of feature film. Her movie is First Love, the story of a young man (played by William Katt, last seen in Carrie) who loses his girl (Susan Dey) to an older man. "I want all the people who see this picture to remember what it was like to fall in love for the first time," says Darling...