Nancy Drew Rescued (some) Boomer Females from Worrying about Floor Waxy Buildup - Included Are Sonia Sotomayor and More

The commercials on that powerful new medium - television - told us females this: Be focused on removing floor waxy buildup. You must use the product of the sponsor which was funding the programming. Otherwise, your relationship with your man could be in peril. But there was an equally powerful counterforce, at least for Boomer females who curled up with the mysteries solved by Nancy Drew . In the early versions of that book franchise, which went on from 1930 to 2003, that Drew was a teenage daughter of a single father. Essentially he seemed okay with her independence, drive and sense of a self. The latter didn't require being on the arm of a man. Often Drew backed out of dates with Ned in order to chase a clue. In contrast to what went on in the Drew books of the 1940s and 1950s, broadcast could make a joke of females who had goals beyond domesticity. Remember the iconic episode on "I Love Lucy" capturing how badly Lucy and Ethel fail at their jobs at the chocolate f...