Women worked in the factories in World War II. They volunteered and worked in the military in world War II. When given the opportunity women did everything men did. But when the war ended, they were told to go home and keep house. And they did. But by the 1960s, energized by the civil rights movement angered by the limitations still placed on them, women decided that enough was enough. They had a right to work. They had a right to buy their own homes and have credit cards in their own names.

They had a right to equality. Women took to the streets and to the legislatures, and are still doing so today. Book jacket.