Bound Volumes, Hometown History

January 2, 2025

50 YEARS AGO

The Best of Television—“Of Women & Men” NBC News Special—Ambitious, provocative three-hour study of the changing relations between women and men in a multitude of fields, ranging from sex, life-styles, family life, education and divorce, to jobs, politics, religion and sports. Reporters Barbara Walters and Tom Snyder handle their jobs as co-hosts and interviewers with sensitivity, and the fact comes through that women have, indeed, changed and broadened the pattern of their identities to permit a wide spectrum of personal choice in relating themselves to life and to men. Dr. Eugene Levitt, a senior research associate at the Institute for Sex Research, offers fascinating evidence that, though more young people have sexual relations before marriage, the commitment on a one-to-one basis, between men and women, whether in or outside of marriage, is the same as it has been over the years. Betty Friedan, one of the founders of the National Organization for Women (NOW), is amazed at the changes that have come about in the lives of women since her organization was established ten years ago.

January 1975