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    This full circle is symbolic of Gail Collins' When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women From 1960 to the Present, a riveting and remarkably thorough account of the tumultuous period. "A generation that was born into a world where women were decreed to have too many household chores to permit them to serve on juries, and where a spokesman for NASA would say that any 'talk of an American spacewoman makes me sick to my stomach,' would come of age in a society where female astronauts and judges were routine" Collins writes in the introduction. Full Article at Columbus Dispatch
    A generation that was born into a world where women were decreed to have too many household chores to permit them to serve on juries, and where a spokesman for NASA would say that any 'talk of an American spacewoman makes me sick to my stomach,' would come of age in a society where female astronauts and judges were routine
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