TIME CAPSULE: Doris Weatherford, skillfully describes in her book American Women and World War Two the plight of the woman expecting a child. A pregnant woman simply had no right to work. Only six states had any regulations even addressing the subject of maternity leave and “comparatively few union contracts take cognizance of the pregnancy…

TIME CAPSULE: A well-known sociologist, predicted that “two-thirds of this country’s ‘war marriages’ were doomed to break up,” a figure of greatly exaggerated proportions. Other writers repeated his prediction. A year after the war’s end, Newsweek confirmed the bad news, announcing in dramatic language that “in 1945 there were 31 divorces for every 100 marriages…