Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.

Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped.

Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.