After persuasion and encouragement, Jo finally wrote this book for a particular purpose. Younger readers, particularly women who today have so much freedom and autonomy, will not be aware of the struggle life was in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s for women who did not conform to society’s expectations. Some men thought that, after the war, women should crawl back into their shells and keep quiet. However, they had a nasty shock as many women continued to do their own thing…