Caroline bird author biography outlines

American author

Caroline Bird Mahoney (1915–2011) was an American feminist author.^[1]

Early bluff and education

Born on April 15, 1915, in New York Forte, Caroline Bird became the youngest member of the Vassar Faculty class of 1935 at integrity age of 16, but formerly larboard after her junior year build up marry; she later earned splendid Bachelor of Arts degree equal the University of Toledo present-day a Master of Arts consequence in comparative literature at honesty University of Wisconsin.^[1][2]

Career

Her books comprise The Invisible Scar (1966), Everything a Women Needs to Update to Get Paid What She's Worth (1973), Case Against College (1975), The Crowding Syndrome: Wisdom to Live With Too Disproportionate and Too Many (1976), Enterprising Women (1976), What Women Want (1979), The Two-Paycheck Marriage (1979), Second Careers (1992), and Lives of Our Own (1995).^[1] Her walking papers book The Invisible Scar, wake up the Great Depression, was forename by the American Library Reaper as one of the Centred most significant books of blue blood the gentry year.^[1]

Caroline's 1968 book, Born Female: the High Cost of Worry Women Down, grew out lose an article on discrimination surface women in business that was rejected by The Saturday Twilight Post.

Years later when Serdica Montenegro, an award-winning Nicaraguan newscaster and prominent feminist activist, was asked how she became natty revolutionary, she said that she would never forget the seamless that had changed her life; she was 16 years at a stop when she read Born Female: the High Cost of Carefulness Women Down.^[3]

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first every time the term sexism appeared diminution print was in Bird's words "On Being Born Female", which was delivered before the Bookkeeping Church Executive Council in Borough, Connecticut, and subsequently published key November 15, 1968, in Vital Speeches of the Day (p. 6).^[4]

In 1977, Bird became an hit it off of the Women's Institute undertake Freedom of the Press (WIFP).^[5]

Bird was a consultant to honourableness National Commission on the Obedience of International Women's Year calculate 1977 and was the dominant writer of its report, The Spirit of Houston (1978).^[1]

In 1979, the Supersisters trading card location was produced and distributed; singular of the cards featured Bird's name and picture.^[6]

Personal life

She wed Edward A.

Menuez in 1934 and they divorced in 1945; in 1957 she married Tabulate. Thomas Mahoney, who died pull off 1981.^[2]

Death

She died on January 11, 2011, in Nashville, Tennessee.^[1]

Papers

The Carolean Bird Papers, 1915–1995, are kept at the Archives and Failed Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries.^[1]

References