Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the
astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with her usual
"sly wit and unfussy style" (People).

When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when most American women had to get
their husbands' permission to apply for a credit card. It ends in 2008 with
Hillary Clinton's historic presidential campaign. This was a time of
cataclysmic change, when, after four hundred years, expectations about the
lives of American women were smashed in just a generation.

A comprehensive mix of oral history and Gail Collins's keen research-
covering politics, fashion, popular culture, economics, sex, families, and
work- When Everything Changed is the definitive book on five crucial decades
of progress. The enormous strides made since 1960 include the advent of the
birth control pill, the end of "Help Wanted--Male" and "Help Wanted--Female"
ads, and the lifting of quotas for women in admission to medical and law
schools. Gail Collins describes what has happened in every realm of women's
lives, partly through the testimonies of both those who made history and
those who simply made their way.

Picking up where her highly lauded book America's Women left off, When
Everything Changed is a dynamic story, told with the down-to-earth, amusing,
and agenda-free tone for which this beloved New York Times columnist is known.
Older readers, men and women alike, will be startled as they are reminded of
what their lives once were--"Father Knows Best" and "My Little Margie" on TV;
daily weigh-ins for stewardesses; few female professors; no women in
the Boston marathon, in combat zones, or in the police department. Younger
readers will see their history in a rich new way. It has been an era packed
with drama and dreams--some dashed and others realized beyond anyone's
imagining.

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