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    • Ruling the Waves
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    • Wonder Women

      Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection

      Wonder Women - Debora Spar

      Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act, why are women still living in a man's world?

       

      Debora L. Spar never thought of herself as a feminist. Raised after the tumult of the 1960s, she presumed the gender war was over. "We thought we could just glide into the new era of equality, with babies, board seats, and husbands in tow," she writes. "We were wrong."

       

      In this groundbreaking and compulsively readable book, Spar explores how American women's lives have—and have not—changed over the past fifty years. Armed with reams of new research, she details how women struggled for power and instead got stuck in an endless quest for perfection. Both deeply personal and statistically rich, Wonder Women is Spar's story and the story of our culture. It is cultural history at its best, and a road map for the future.

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    • Press and Articles

      Barnard President: Today's 'Wonder Women' Must Reframe Feminism

      Fresh Air (NPR)

      Would Women Have Helped Avert Wall Street Crash?

      All Things Considered (NPR)

      Finding Satisfaction in Second Best

      The New York Times (Jodi Kantor)

      What Men Can Do to Help Women Advance Their Careers

      Harvard Business Review

      Why the Woman Who "Has It All" Doesn't Really Exist

      Glamour Magazine

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