33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women's History: From Suffragettes to Skirt Lengths to the E.R.A.
Did you know that as recently as 1972, male employees could legally be  paid twice as much as females for doing the same job? Or that in the 1992  edition ofBartlett's Familiar Quotations, only 5.5 percent of the quoted  lines were written by women? It's easy now to be complacent about such rights as  voting, equal pay for men and women, education, even speaking. But it wasn't so  long ago that women were fighting--sometimes with their lives--for these rights.  And, as this rabble-rousing collection of essays, poems, drama, photos,  illustrations, and stories reveals, the many "firsts" in history (or "herstory")  are entirely relevant to the lives of girls and women today. Gathered by Tonya  Bolden, editor of33 Things Every  Girl Should KnowandHands On! 33 More Things Every Girl  Should Know, the exuberant voices in this volume encourage young women  to empower themselves with knowledge ("it's the ultimate girl power"). Girls  will learn about "Beauty" "Why Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) Still Rules," and  how "Title IX Helped Level the Playing Field," by a diverse group of well-known  and less familiar authors, including Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Patricia C.  McKissack, Abigail Adams, and Ophira Edut. (Ages 12 and older)--Emilie  Coulter