![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her students were utterly unaware that there ever was a time when a married woman could not get credit without her husband’s signature or that newspapers ran separate help wanted ads for men (doctor, lawyer, accountant, chief) and for women (secretary, nurse, and filing clerk). What do young women and men know about how gender worked in the world before the modern women’s movement? Virtually nothing, history professor Ruth Rosen discovered. The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America by Ruth Rosen, Viking, $34.95 ![]()
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