I was asked once in a job interview what my husband thought of me applying and whether, as the mother of two young children, I could handle the position.
That was in 1992, three decades after the dawn of the modern women's movement, 20 years after Title IX threw open competitive sports to girls and women, and 28 years after Congress banned discrimination on the basis of sex and race.
Not surprisingly, they offered the job to a man, so I didn't have the pleasure of turning them down. ...