Women's Rights in America

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In the early 1970s, the feminist movement in America was organized and empowered. Not everyone saw all this as progress; conservative Americans decried what they saw as a dangerous upheaval of women's roles in society. But one author's take on it all still has weight: "We hope that one day a woman will be able to choose whether she wants to stay home"

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