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One section in this reading imparticular caught my attention. Rosen discusses how the practice of both parents going to work, then she talks about the rise of divorce in America. She says that a slowing economy due to the oil shocks of 1973 caused women who were a part of lower and middle class households to get a job. While that may be true, I believe that fact did more for women in the workplace than the feminist movement on the whole. In other words, it took a severe recession and stagflation for women to enter the workforce in large numbers, not any type of social movement. While the forementioned movement might well have helped women climb up the ladder once employed, it was not the main factor in females going to work, not to sound redundant. As I said, her next paragraph discussed divorce, and I actually agreed with her analysis there. She says that the values of the counterculture and a more sexually free society led to higher divorce rates, which I believe is fairly accurate. It gave young people more freedom when deciding their future, instead of simply following the status quo of the previous generation. Also, I believe emboldened women, who became so by reading various magazines aimed at that particular demographic, realized that they should not be held captive in an abusive or love-less relationship. Previously, divorce was extremely taboo, especially if the women was the contributing party. But the revolution of women's rights, gave women the bravery to get out of terrible marriages, rather than being a hostage till death do her justice.

-Brad