How very different your generation is than your mother's. Women move through the world of work as men do, and I think their sexual experiences often parallel those of men. We're thinking for ourselves in ways that were literally unthinkable 30 or 40 years ago. I feel free to take on anything in my writing, though I continue to do it through a domestic prism. The arena in which they struggle might be slightly different, but that's all.
Marriage is no longer the shaper of the destiny of women.
It's more possible now for women to write of experience in a way that would speak to men as well. I've always thought it a pity that men don't read women writers more than they do. They certainly should. In the '90s, the marketing of a book has assumed as much importance as the writing of one. They no longer feel in control of the market, so they just try everything.