RUMORS OF OUR PROGRESS HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED: Why Life Isn't Getting Any Easier & How You Can Make Real Progress

You may have heard the rumors: The glass ceiling has been shattered. Gender discrimination has gone the way of the woolly mammoth. Violence against women is under control. When Carolyn B. Maloney, a Democratic congresswoman and one of the nation's leading advocates for women, hears the rumors, she can't decide whether to laugh or cry. If women have made so much 'progress,' why haven't their lives gotten any easier? Why do most American women say they don't get enough sleep and that balancing work and family is getting harder? Why do they make 77 cents to a man's dollar? And why must Maloney still fight to preserve rights-such as educational equality and even birth control-that seemed secure in the 1970s?Mixing wit with withering criticism, Maloney exposes where progress for women is being stalled, even reversed, by 'family values champions' who prefer women's roles and rights of the 1950's. She argues that gains for women and girls have only been a down payment on realizing their full potential, which will be indispensable to maintaining their families' quality of life, and America's standard of living, in the 21st century global economy.Then, drawing on her decades of leadership and interviews with women CEOs, movie stars, and ordinary women who have heroically reformed 'the system' that failed them, Maloney offers actionable steps-large and small-for women to make real progress and support real family values in their homes, communities, workplaces, and nation. Described by Time magazine as a 'tenacious, resilient, legislator,' Maloney leaves no doubt that the power of women resolved to make a difference is one thing that can never be exaggerated.