This volume brings together practical and essential information in the basic areas of women's lives. It covers topics such as how to embark on brand new careers, rear better families, have more free time, enjoy more exciting sex lives, become financially independent and politically powerful, how to ask for a raise, start a daycare center, or establish a credit identity. This information was culled from sources such as how-to literature for women, from nineteenth-century periodicals to modern how-to manuals, books, articles from out-of-print magazines, from little-known pamphlets, and a few classics from women's writings about women. In addition, this book provides a "Woman's Directory, " a yellow-pages like section at the back of the book, listing a wealth of organizations and facilities for women.