A Woman's Place revisited

To appreciate Lorraine Duvall’s book, “Finding A Woman's Place: The Story of a 1970s Feminist Collective in the Adirondacks,” it helps to understand the inequality women faced in those years.

Women earned 59 cents to every dollar men made, according to a report commissioned by President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Birth control pills were largely unavailable. Women weren’t allowed to serve on juries throughout the country until 1973. It wasn’t until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 that women