Data di nascita: 1915-04-15
Data di morte: 2011-01-11
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: New York, New York, USA
Luogo di morte: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Istruzione: University of Wisconsin (MA - Comparative Literature)
University of Toledo (BA - American History)
Attività lavorative: feminist scholar
non-fiction writer
researcher
freelance writer
editor
lecturer (mostra tutto 8)
television commentator
journalist
Organizzazioni: American Society of Journalists and Authors
American Sociology Association
Breve biografia: Caroline Bird was born in New York City. Her father was a lawyer and activist newspaper editor who encouraged her to write. At age 16, she became the youngest member of the Vassar Class of 1935. She left college after her junior year to marry Edward A. Menuez, a teacher, with whom she had a daughter. She later earned a B.A. at the University of Toledo and an M.A. in comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin.

During World War II, she held several research and editing jobs. After a divorce in 1945, she remarried to J. Thomas Mahoney, also a writer, and gave birth to a son at age 46. She worked as a freelance magazine writer before publishing her first book, The Invisible Scar (1966), on the Great Depression, which established her as an author. Her second book, Born Female (1968), became a feminist classic and made her one of the "founding mothers" of the women's movement in the USA. Subsequent books included The Crowding Syndrome (1972); Everything a Woman Needs to Know to Get Paid What She's Worth (1973); The Case Against College (1975); Enterprising Women (1976) and The Two-Paycheck Marriage (1979). Caroline Bird was a popular lecturer and television commentator and a a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the American Sociology Association.

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Invisible Scar: The Great Depression, and What It… di Caroline Bird

This book backs up all the stories that my mother told me and then some. It is well-researched and full of detail but it is also easy to see the Ms. Bird had her own opinions about some of the reasons that things went so very wrong and how ordinary people were affected.

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R0BIN | Apr 27, 2013 |

Born Female: The High Cost of Keeping Women Down di Caroline Bird

Although somewhat dated, this book paints a pretty good picture of what it was like to become a career woman in the middle of the 20th century. The obstacles women faced, progress that was made, and barriers that were yet to be toppled.

40 years later, I'm glad that these women fought as hard as they did for equality, as I would be living a dramatically different life if not for equal opportunity for women.

One of the few things that struck me as not having changed at all in 40 years are the fact that women continue to face the difficult challenge of motherhood vs. career (it's difficult to take time off to tend to children if you don't have money coming in from another source, yet child care is prohibitively expensive for many women), and the fact that child support is still not publicly subsidized, and employers on the whole have little support for women who decide to start families.

Also, I find it striking that, 40 years later, engineering is still one of the fields where women are drastically underrepresented. It makes me proud to be one of the few, and I certainly hope that more will follow in time, but it makes me wonder exactly what's keeping women back. But I guess that's another story for another book.… (altro)

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lemontwist | Dec 28, 2009 |

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