Miss/LSD: In the 50s, LSD was considered a “wonder drug” for treating mental illness. By the end of the 60s it was classified as a schedule I drug, which are tightly regulated by the federal government.

Miss/Independent: In 1960 women with advanced degrees (31%) were about four times as likely to have never married as women with a high school education or less. In 2023, 51% of US women aged 18-40 were single, a rise from 42% in 2000, driven by higher educational attainment, economic independence, and changing social norms.

Miss/Managed: While many housewives took pride in their work as managers of their homes, the period also included significant pressure to adhere to strict gender roles, which led to rising dissatisfaction and the beginning of the feminist movement.

Miss/Satisfied:  The 1960s sexual revolution was a profound cultural shift that separated sexual activity from reproduction and marriage, largely driven by the 1960 approval of the birth control pill, which offered women, in particular, unprecedented autonomy enabling greater sexual freedom.

Miss/Ambition: In the 1960s, scientific and cultural views on women's brains were largely dominated by sexist stereotypes, defining "healthy" women as self-sacrificing and emotional, while portraying intellectual ambition as rare or unnatural.

Miss/Informed: Period education in the 1960s was often handled with secrecy, focusing on rigid hygiene and "managing" menstruation rather than understanding reproductive health.

Madam President: Matriarchies are not just a reversal of patriarchies, with women ruling over men – as the usual misinterpretation would have it. Matriarchies are mother-centered societies. They are based on maternal values: care-taking, nurturing, mothering. This holds for everybody: for mothers and those who are not mothers, for women and men alike.