Cathleen’s Reviews > Bachelor Girl: 100 Years of Breaking the Rules - a Social History of Living Single > Status Update
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"By 1968, New York's famed 'singles ghetto' had been renamed the 'girl ghetto.' And it's residents came under unkind, often vicious, scrutiny... No matter how lucky they might have felt, whatever it was they'd got away from, girls could never quite convey to male reporters just what it was they found so thrilling about their own interpretation of single life. That's because reporters did not want to know."
— May 11, 2011 06:23AM
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Cathleen
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1902 female honorees of Who's Who: "53.3 percent of them -- for the time an enormous number -- said they would never marry, viewing it as a 'profound disincentive' to serious work... the notion of the best and the brightest refusing to marry and reproduce, preferring instead to conduct scientific research, attend conferences, smoke and/or chain themselves to fences, had taken hold."
— Mar 13, 2011 11:32AM
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"In 1910 there were an estimated fifteen thousand boarding and furnished rooming houses, where girls were not so much chaperoned but placed on a permanent parole... It seemed all apartment keys had been reserved for men. Until the early twentieth century there were no apartments for women. They didn't exist."
— Mar 09, 2011 04:57AM
Cathleen
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"The obvious fact was that no one could live on two dollars a week -- the typical salary -- or even on a generous raise to four dollars or, if she was very lucky, seven. In 1870 the Herald estimated that 5 to 10 percent of all young working women made extra money by hooking, treating it as an adjunct to their jobs."
— Mar 08, 2011 04:30AM
