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Women Who Broke All the Rules: How the Choices of a Generation Changed Our Lives
Women Who Broke All the Rules How the Choices of a Generation Changed Our Lives Author:Susan B. Evans, Joan P. Avis, Susan Evans Life turns out in ways you never expected. The eighteen million women born in the first years of the baby boom grew up anticipating a life of rules--go to college, get married, have a family. But when the time came, the cultural, social and political tumult of the late 1960s catapulted them into options that no previous generation had even cons... more »idered. The Women Who Broke All the Rules is the first book to celebrate the ordinary but extraordinary women who made decisions that have changed every womans life. Against extreme odds and without role models, these women made unprecedented life choices--in marriage, childbearing, education and work. By breaking every rule in the good girl handbook, they defined new ways for adult women to live. You will recognize yourself, your family and your friends in these pages.« less