Out with a new book, she talks about what's changed for women in the past 50 years, what hasn't and how it's hard to find a good husband.
Gail Collins became the first woman to hold the position of editorial page editor for The New York Times in 2001. Six years later, Collins returned to her columnist roots, where she has made pointing out the ironies and absurdities of the political process her trademark in weekly Times columns. Now she's out with a new book, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present, a valentine to the progress women have made over the last 50 years.
In the course of the five decades that Collins charts, Nora Ephron applies to a job at Newsweek, is told that "women don't become writers here" and becomes, well, Nora Ephron. A postwar survey that finds fewer than 10% of those interviewed believe an unmarried woman could be happy evolves into the era of Sex and the City, which sculpted single women into enviable icons. A 1961 medical school dean who says, "We do keep women out, when we can. We don't want them here" is relegated to history's trash heap: Female students now claim 50% of the spots in medical schools.
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