![]() ![]() “It’s important because when women work, it’s a matter of course they are powerful and taken seriously. ![]() “After birth control pills became widely available, applications by women to law schools and medical schools went through the roof,” she said.Ĭollins also noted that in order for families to maintain the type of lifestyle that became popular after World War II, women had to enter the workforce because one salary could no longer support that lifestyle given the tough economic conditions of the 1970s. “The country had been so extraordinarily unjust to such a large chunk of its population for such a prolonged period of time, once digested that, I think the country became very sensitive to issues of fairness,” Collins said.Ĭollins also said that before the advent of the birth control pill, long preparation times for professions such as law and medicine made them seem prohibitive to women. Many of Collins’s remarks, interspersed with humor, drew laughter from the audience.Ĭollins said that the Civil Rights movement’s transformative effects on American society allowed other movements to follow in its wake. The lecture, titled after her recent book “When Everything Changed,” was this year’s Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture, and was given before a packed audience in the Radcliffe Institute’s Knafel Center. New York Times columnist Gail Collins argued in a lecture on Tuesday evening that the Civil Rights movement, the advent of the birth control pill in the 1960s, and the economic slump of the 1970s were crucial in shifting American society’s views on women. ![]()
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