This Is What Happens

How is it that the girl with straight As ends up scrubbing floors for minimum wage, living in a room above Vera''s Hairstyling, in a god-forsaken town called Powassan?  She didn''t marry the wrong guy. She didn''t have kids. She wasn''t an immigrant, uprooted and transplanted. So what happened? 

Feminist theorist Dale Spender wrote, in Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them, "We need to know...