Half of your club will think this is an important book, and the other half will think it is worthless. Although I think this is a book with lots of flaws, I thought it was eye opening to me about what we women went through growing up in the 40s 50s and 60s when women were expected to stay home, raise a family, not show any intelligence and be arm candy for their husbands. During those years women went to college mainly to "catch" a husband. The only acceptable curriculums for women were teaching and nursing, plus maybe English lit., and homemaking. This book was published in 1963 when women were just starting to break out of the societal mold imposed upon them. I graduated from high school in 1964, college in 1967 and law school (1 of 7 women in a class of 300) in 1970. I was roundly condemned and mistrusted for stepping into a man's place. This book was published the same year as Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mistique". All women should read both of these books to understand what we have battled to get where we are now--still far behind the men, but not as far behind as we were.