We Are Our Mothers' Daughters: Revised and Expanded Edition
Cokie Roberts
Language: English
Pages: 336
ISBN: 0061715921
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In this revised and expanded tenth-anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller, renowned political commentator Cokie Roberts once again examines the nature of women's roles through the revealing lens of her personal experience. From mother to mechanic, sister to soldier, Roberts reveals how much progress has been made—and how much further we have to go. A superb collection of profiles and essays, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters offers tremendous insight into the opportunities and challenges that women encounter today as Roberts reflects upon the number of female achievers who have graced the public stage in the past decade, and focuses on the question, "What next?"
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economic leverage to help the Burmese people reclaim their freedom.” No sooner were the words out of the president’s mouth, his wife later remembered, “and we immediately get an e-mail from the Thai border.” One of the activists she had been working with was thrilled. “What the American president says…immediately is around the world.” For all the excitement of the dissidents, however, and despite the success in convincing the Security Council to place Burma on its agenda, the generals there
Nourse Rogers steered through legislation establishing the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, which allowed women to serve but gave them no military status and no benefits. That changed in 1943, when the “Auxiliary” was dropped and the WACs became official members of the armed forces. The navy equivalent—the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service)—had been created by Congress a year earlier. In the course of the war one hundred forty thousand women served in the army, one hundred
team of all blondes against one of all brunettes was too good to die. In 1883 it was the Philadelphia Blondes and Brunettes. Also that year the all-female Philadelphia Red Stockings played their sister team, the Blue Stockings, and to boost attendance, women were admitted free. When five hundred women showed up at the Camden, New Jersey, ball field, the management decided to charge them admission—the children’s price of fifteen cents. Most successful were the Bloomer Girls teams, which
are now headed by women—Anne Sweeney at ABC and Vivian Schiller at NPR. And there is finally a solo woman anchor of a network evening news broadcast—though Katie Couric has taken her lumps. Women are also on the mastheads of major newspapers—including the Washington Post, where Katharine Graham’s granddaughter Katharine Weymouth is following in her grandmother’s gutsy footsteps. But still, if you turn on your TV set for the evening news, you would never know that white men make up only 36 percent
somebody else.” It’s tough, tough work at Allied Signal, Eva Oliver advised other women, made tougher for her because she didn’t start until she was thirty years old and because she was the groundbreaker, the one who had to prove she could do it, and the one who had no one to turn to when the men gave her a hard time. Her age might have made her situation more difficult, but even younger women found the physical punishment brutal. For a long time, Eva Oliver just laughed off the beating her body