Maybe times HAVE changed

We have a new book called Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX, the Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America, by Karen Blumenthal (796.082 B627l). Glancing through it, I was reminded of how much things have changed for girls and women since I was in high school. Okay, we still have a long way to go, but this book reminded me of how much I now take for granted. It helped me recall the happy shock I felt the first time I saw a woman behind the wheel of a big city bus, which was around the same time I got my first library job on the county bookmobile. The driver was an elderly man with heart problems and I was afraid he would keel over one day. I wanted to learn how to drive the bookmobile myself in case of emergency, but the (all woman) management wouldn't hear of it. Wouldn't be an issue in today's world.

Check out this photo of girls protesting a newspaper's policy in 1971 (the year after I graduated from high school) to allow only boys to deliver the paper.