By the time Clinton graduated from Yale Law School, many people, including her boyfriend Bill, believed she could, and should, embark on… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Look at somebody like Margaret Sanger, who was married young and had kids but then left her husband and wound up living… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton must have been as aware as anyone that by entering the presidential race she was kicking off a long-awaited social… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton had to propose to Hillary Rodham several times before she agreed to marry him and move to Arkansas. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
For inspiration, we still demand the rhetorical high notes. Clinton has hit them before, in her speech in Beijing as first lady… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Yes, there have been women in comedy. Moms Mabley was one of the earliest. She was an African American comedian; she often… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Camille Hanks, whose upper-middle-class parents both had college degrees, was a student at the University of Maryland planning on a teaching career… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
A very successful woman, Palin has the wherewithal to move forward consciously. What she did was move forward thoughtlessly and overconfidently, without… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
All the epic allusions contribute to the difficulty Clinton has long had in coming across as, simply, a human being. She is… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“..the expectations of Republican Motherhood – in which women’s obligations were the instilling of civic virtue in offspring and the moral maintenance of their… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“Andrea Dworkin famously commented that “Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice.” In” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
I'd spent my whole adult life considering myself an independent entity, my life filled by work and friends and family. Suddenly I had a… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
The lack of marriage is being blamed for almost every social ill - whether it's gun violence, whether it's poverty, whether it's the dropping… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“Friedan also didn’t consider the population of American women who were already altering marriage patterns,” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“In his 1873 Sex in Education; or A Fair Chance for the Girls, Harvard professor Edward Clarke argued that the female brain, if engaged… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
By the time Clinton graduated from Yale Law School, many people, including her boyfriend Bill, believed she could, and should, embark on a political… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
In 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 64 percent of mothers with children under six worked. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape,… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
