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It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.

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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.

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Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.

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Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleaning. She eats what's left after the men and boys have eaten; she is less likely to be vaccinated, to see a doctor, to attend school.

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In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.

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The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.

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The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.

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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.

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The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.

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Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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