Have the Prospects for Women Changed?

When American actor (then called an “actress”) Katherine Hepburn made this statement in the middle of the 20th Century, it hit home with our country’s women.  After all, how many females at the time could expect to live with the same rights and privileges as men?

Seventy years later, things have changed. Woman are still paid less than men for identical work, but, as 1970s feminist icon Gloria Stein put it, “a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”