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<text id=90TT2982>
<title>
Nov. 08, 1990: She's Come A Long Way
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Nov. 08, 1990 Special Issue - Women:The Road Ahead
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
PUBLIC IMAGES, Page 58
She's Come a Long Way
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<body>
<p>Madison Avenue once focused on convincing women that
fulfillment lay in whiter whites and tastier desserts. These
days, who bakes?
</p>
<p> Since women are the nation's top consumers, advertising has
always made them the center of its world. Ads portrayed proper
female aspirations: to be a desirable companion, a competent
cleaner, a loving mother. The women in ads found fulfillment in
the supermarket aisles--and in Maidenform bras. But as
millions began to venture beyond the home in the 1970s, the
images had to change. Madison Avenue's women developed minds of
their own. Consider the female Honda buyer, who thinks like a
man. Or Charlie, reaching out to touch someone. Even romance
mirrors complex modern reality: the cute young thing in the new
Johnnie Walker ad seems to be a divorced mother.
</p>
</body>
</article>
</text>