I always really liked this book. And reading it again, I still like it, despite its utterly antiquated view of equality of the sexes.
But lets face it, it was true to its time. Even when I graduated from high school in 1980, there was an assumption that as a female, you went to university, got a degree, worked a few years, got married and had children. Maybe the order changed a bit, maybe you got married after university and before working... But honestly, I can remember professors telling me that they didn't see the point of my taking the classes I was taking "because you are just going to get married and have children". I didn't even think it was all that out of line... it was just the way things were.
Back in 1974 "equal pay for equal work" was not a law, the phrase "sexual harassment" had not been coined, and the idea the Sally would be an independent woman right up until she married Rod and became a stereotype wouldn't seem all that out of whack.
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Date: 2012-04-29 07:27 pm (UTC)But lets face it, it was true to its time. Even when I graduated from high school in 1980, there was an assumption that as a female, you went to university, got a degree, worked a few years, got married and had children. Maybe the order changed a bit, maybe you got married after university and before working... But honestly, I can remember professors telling me that they didn't see the point of my taking the classes I was taking "because you are just going to get married and have children". I didn't even think it was all that out of line... it was just the way things were.
Back in 1974 "equal pay for equal work" was not a law, the phrase "sexual harassment" had not been coined, and the idea the Sally would be an independent woman right up until she married Rod and became a stereotype wouldn't seem all that out of whack.
Times have changed, for which I am grateful.