After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and… — 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… — 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… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful, professionally powerful, who threatens a white male grip on power that has… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
In some ways, privileged women who are closer to power wind up being able to exert their influence in ways that change… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
There are a whole bunch of structural and systemic factors we need to address in order to move away from the model… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
'The Daily Show,' which was created by women, Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg, has earned quite a bit of ink for the… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
There is not a special place in Hell for people who didn't support Sarah Palin. Do you know what I mean? It's… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
The vast majority of women who marry still take their husband's name. And I'm not vilifying that behavior! But that's a pattern… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
When lawmakers start to make laws that hurt single women, often the women that they're hurting the most are not the economically… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
The women's movement in the 1970s led more women into the workforce and got them closer to pay equality. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Roseanne was a huge groundbreaking comedian. Margaret Cho. Ellen DeGeneres, and then on 'Saturday Night Live,' the era of Tina Fey and… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of ways in which women, together, change the world. And I don't mean that in a cheesy way.… — 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
More women than ever are having babies at the peak of their careers. When will we stop punishing them for it? — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Single women will get us closer to gender equality, and that will take many forms, including a reimagining of what families entail… — 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
Up until 1920, women couldn't vote. Until 1974, married women couldn't get their own credit cards or, in some cases, their own… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Blogs with feminist content, from 'Feministing' and 'Jezebel' to 'Racialicious' and 'Shakesville' and 'Feministe,' have opened up and changed the scope of… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
In 220 years of American presidential politics, there had been no serious female major party contenders, though women had been campaigning for… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“What [Sarah] Palin so beguilingly represented ... was a form of female power that was utterly digestible to those who had no… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
In 1947, the year Clinton was born, there were no women serving in the Senate. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Plenty of the women who were single in the nineteenth century wrote about their desire to evade marriage. Marriage was scary in… — 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
