When Everything Changed (68 page)

335
    Reagan never used: Cannon,
Ronald Reagan,
457.

336
    The real Taylor: “Chicago ‘Relief’ Queen Guilty,” Associated Press, March 19, 1977.

336
    “When we started the current”: “Excerpts from Debate in the Senate on the Welfare Measure,”
New York Times,
August 2, 1996.

337
    “When the original welfare”: Maureen Dowd, “Washington Talk—Q&A: Daniel Patrick Moynihan,”
New York Times,
February 19, 1987.

337
    After the Civil War: Jones,
Labor of Love,
58–60.

338
    Jason DeParle, who had: DeParle,
American Dream,
304.

338
    “On welfare Angie”: Ibid., 321.

338
    In 1995 Norma: McCorvey,
Won by Love,
242.

339
    “They could have been nice”: Douglas Wood, “Who Is ‘Jane Roe’?”
CNN,
June 18, 2003.

339
    Even many of the: E. J. Dionne Jr., “Struggle for Work and Family Fueling Women’s Movement,”
New York Times,
August 22, 1989.

339
    The abortion rate peaked: “Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States,” Guttmacher Institute, New York, January 2008.

340
    Americans were most likely: Ibid.

340
    In South Dakota, an antichoice: Monica Davey, “South Dakota to Revisit Restrictions on Abortions,”
New York Times,
April 26, 2008.

340
    More than a century: Collins,
America’s Women,
245.

341
    A native of Oklahoma: Mayer and Abramson,
Strange Justice,
84.

341
   
Time
reported that although complaints: Nancy Gibbs, “The War Against Feminism,”
Time,
March 9, 1992.

341
    Changing planes in Houston: Mayer and Abramson,
Strange Justice,
28.

342
    A poll found that 55: Priscilla Painton, “Woman Power,”
Time,
October 28, 1991.

342
    A Pentagon report: Eric Schmitt, “Senior Navy Officers Suppressed Sex Investigation,”
New York Times,
September 25, 1992.

342
    The “commonsense guideline”: Gloria Steinem, “Feminists and the Clinton Question,”
New York Times,
March 22, 1998.

343
    Senator Barbara Mikulski, for one: “Year of the Woman,”
senate.gov
.

344
    “Maybe you could find: Solaro,
Women in the Line of Fire,
197.

344
    In the most famous: Cornum,
She Went to War.

346
    It was not until 1991: Allison Askins for Knight Ridder, “Interracial Marriages on the Rise but Hurdles Remain,”
Times-Picayune,
October 19, 1997.

346
    If the country needed: Jane Gross, “In Prom Dispute, a Town’s Race Divisions Emerge,”
New York Times,
August 15, 1994.

348
    Nora Ephron once joked: Ephron,
Heartburn,
81.

348
    In 2005 Maureen: Maureen Dowd, “What’s a Modern Girl to Do?”
New York Times Magazine,
October 30, 2005.

349
    “What most lesbians remember”: Van Gelder and Brandt,
The Girls Next Door,
31.

349
    In the
Washington Post,
Kara: Kara Swisher, “We Love Lesbians. Or Do We?”
Washington Post,
July 18, 1993.

349
   
New York Magazine
put K. D. Lang: Jeanie Russell Kasindorf, “Lesbian Chic,”
New York Magazine,
May 10, 1993.

350
    In a reverse case: Yvonne Abraham, “At 80 Schlafly Is Still a Conservative Force,”
Boston Globe,
September 2, 2004.

350
    Diane Salvatore, a gay: Kasindorf, “Lesbian Chic.”

14. THE NEW MILLENNIUM

Interviews: Lisa Belkin, Alison Foster, Claudia Goldin, Lilly Ledbetter, Tanya Pollard, Vicki Cohn Pollard, Serena Savarirayan, Valerie Steele, Gloria Steinem, Laura Sessions Stepp, Jessica Valenti.

351
    “I am the innocent”: Margalit Fox, “Betty Friedan, Who Ignited Cause in
Feminine Mystique,
Dies at 85,”
New York Times,
February 5, 2006.

351
    Looking back, she said: Friedan,
Life So Far,
375.

351
    By the beginning: Jonathan Glater, “Women Are Close to Being Majority of Law Students,”
New York Times,
March 26, 2001; Yilu Zhao, “Beyond Sweetie,”
New York Times,
November 7, 2004.

351
    They dominated some fields: Yilu Zhao, “Women Soon to Be Majority of Veterinarians,”
New York Times,
June 9, 2002; Hacker,
Mismatch,
2.

351
    Forty percent of the new: Hacker,
Mismatch,
2; Anderson,
The Movement and the Sixties,
20.

352
    More important, 40 percent: “Gender Issues: Women’s Participation in the Sciences Has Increased,” United States Government Accountability Office, July 2004, 3.

352
    Even in the small: Goldin and Rouse, “Orchestrating Impartiality.”

352
    “The reality is that”: Jennifer Delahunty Britz, “To All the Girls I’ve Rejected,”
New York Times,
March 23, 2006.

353
   
Newsweek,
in a cover: Peg Tyre, “The Trouble with Boys,”
Newsweek,
January 20, 2007.

353
    In Milton, Massachusetts: Elizabeth Weil, “Teaching Boys and Girls Separately,”
New York Times Magazine,
January 20, 2008.

353
    Margaret Spellings, George W. Bush’s: Tyre, “The Trouble with Boys.”

353
    Only 17 percent: Timothy O’Brien, “Why Do So Few Women Reach the Top of Big Law Firms?”
New York Times,
March 19, 2006.

353
    While women held nearly half: “Fortune 500 Women CEOs,”
Fortune,
April 16, 2008.

353
    More than three-quarters: David Cay Johnston, “As Salary Grows, So Does Gender Gap,”
New York Times,
May 12, 2002.

353
    By the time CBS: Paul Fahri, “Men Signing Off,”
Washington Post,
July 23, 2006.

354
    But the divide: David Leonhardt, “Scant Progress on Closing Gap in Women’s Pay,”
New York Times,
December 24, 2006.

354
    The number of male: Cindy Kranz, “Higher Pay Could Attract Men to Teach, Some Say,”
Cincinnati Enquirer,
December 23, 2008.

357
    One of Ginsburg’s: Linda Greenhouse, “Supreme Court Memo,”
New York Times,
May 31, 2007.

358
    A study by Andrew: Sam Roberts, “For Young Earners in Big City, a Gap in Women’s Favor,”
New York Times,
August 3, 2007.

358
    By the new millennium: “We the People: Women and Men in the United States,” U.S. Census Bureau, January 2005.

358
    In 2009, as the recession: Catherine Rampell, “As Layoffs Surge, Women May Pass Men in Job Force,”
New York Times,
February 6, 2009.

359
    Google, the cutting-edge: Joe Nocera, “On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble,”
New York Times,
July 5, 2008.

359
    In 2008 Lisa Belkin: “When Mom and Dad Share It All,”
New York Times Magazine,
June 15, 2008.

362
    Belkin, who had a gift: Lisa Belkin, “The Opt-Out Revolution,”
New York Times Magazine,
October 26, 2003.

363
    Claudia Goldin, a Harvard: Goldin, “The Long Road to the Fast Track.”

363
    A follow-up study: Goldin and Katz, “Transitions.”

363
    And another study of graduates: Ibid.

363
    In September 2005: Louise Story, “Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood,”
New York Times,
September 20, 2005.

364
    “It really does raise”: Ibid.

364
    Nicholas Kulish, a 30-year-old: Kulish, “Changing the Rules for the Team Sport of Bread-Winning,”
New York Times,
September 23, 2005.

365
    In 2006 the United States: Rob Stein, “U.S. Fertility Rate Hits Thirty-five-Year High,”
Washington Post,
December 21, 2007.

365
    A study at the University of Turin: Russell Shorto, “No Babies,”
New York Times Magazine,
June 29, 2008.

365
    “The cost of women”: O’Brien, “Why Do So Few Women Reach the Top of Big Law Firms?”

366
    Lisa Belkin, writing about: Belkin, “Who’s Cuddly Now?”

366
    slightly over half of adult: Kate Zernike, “Why Are There So Many Single Americans?”
New York Times,
January 21, 2007.

366
    The percentage of women ages: “We the People,” U.S. Census Bureau.

366
    Of the fifty thousand: Coontz,
Marriage,
270.

367
    “I can’t count”: Stepp,
Unhooked,
249.

367
    But for the most part: Edin and Kefalas,
Promises I Can Keep,
207.

367
    In the late 1990s: This section is based on information in
Promises I Can Keep
by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas.

367
    But it was not all that great: Coontz,
The Way We Really Are,
150.

368
    In the spring of 1998: Stepp,
Unhooked.

370
    A 16-year-old boy: Alex Kuczynski, “She’s Got to Be a Macho Girl,”
New York Times,
November 3, 2002.

370
    “I stopped wearing panty hose”: Michelle Obama, interviewed on
The View,
June 18, 2008.

371
    “I think people”: Donna St. George, “U.S. Deaths in Iraq Mark Increased Presence,”
Washington Post,
December 31, 2006.

372
    Studies of female veterans: Sara Corbett, “The Women’s War,”
New York Times Magazine,
March 18, 2007; “Sexual Assault in Military ‘Jaw-Dropping,’ Lawmaker Says,”
CNN.com
, July 31, 2008.

372
    “Frankly, one of the most dangerous”: Ibid.

373
    Lynch’s best friend in the army: The story of Lori Piestewa is based on information from “A Wrong Turn in the Desert” by Osha Gray Davidson,
Rolling Stone,
May 27, 2004.

15. HILLARY AND SARAH… AND TAHITA

Interviews: Muriel Fox, Edna Kleimeyer, Gerald McBeath, George McGovern, Himilce Novas, Michelle Obama.

Unless otherwise noted, this chapter is based on my reporting as a columnist for the
New York Times.

376
    “speaking more forcefully”: Patrick Tyler, “Hillary Clinton, in China, Details Abuse of Women,”
New York Times,
September 6, 1995.

379
    Gloria Steinem asked, in the
New York Times:
“Women Are Never Front-Runners,”
New York Times,
January 8, 2008.

379
    In March 2008, at a Women: Karen Breslau, “Work Harder, Prove Yourself,”
newsweek.com
, August 29, 2008.

380
    Susan Faludi suggested: Susan Faludi, “The Fight Stuff,”
New York Times,
May 9, 2008.

381
    “Women like her most”: Julia Baird, “From Seneca Falls to… Sarah Palin?”
Newsweek,
September 22, 2008.

382
    But after her smashing: Ibid.

382
    people sometimes called themselves: Lisa Miller and Amanda Coyne, “A Visit to Palin’s Church,”
Newsweek,
September 2, 2008.

383
    Palin remembered growing up: Breslau, “Work Harder, Prove Yourself.”

383
    (When asked during her gubernatorial): Rebecca Johnson, “Altered States,”
Vogue,
February 1, 2008.

383
    She once called that victory: S. J. Komarnitsky, “New Mayor, Sharp Knife,”
Anchorage Daily News,
October 3, 1996.

383
    Her sister said the only goal: Monica Davey, “Little-Noticed College Student to Star Politician,”
New York Times,
October 24, 2008.