and failure of the equal rights amendment it also tells us stories of every day women such as catherine switzer, the first woman to run the boston marathon. here iaks oo at the the trailer. >> honey, when was the last time you baked a cake. >> last week, dear. >> i was brought up in the betty crocker era. you had to get married and you had to have a child. >> that's what it was about, to meet the guy, to get married, to have babies, to be the president of the pta. i can't even stand going back to thinking about those days, what it was like for women. did i ever fake an orgasm, you bet i faked one. >> every place i went for interviews the only thing they wanted to know was can you type. >> your high score on the scholastic aptitude test indicates that you can become a good secretary. >> landlords felt single women couldn't eastern you have to pay for the apartment. and if you could earn enough, you must be a hooker. ♪ i feel the earth move ♪ under my feet ♪. >> it was like a tsunami, it was like something was boiling under the earth. and we could bring it up. ♪ . >> it was as if a great flood li

. >> reporter: in 1967, catherine switzer was a junior at syracuse university. because syracuse had no women's track team she began training with the manager of the men's team. a part-time mailman named arnie briggs. >> it was arnie who teld me about the greatest day in his life every year which was the boston marathon. we were out running. arnie began telling me another boston marathon story. i said, oh, arnie, i want you to quit talking about the darned marathon and run it. my dream then became to prove that i could run 26 miles, 385 yards. >> reporter: for 70 years the boston marathon had excluded women. but switzer entered using just her initials. >> we walked to the start and the gun went off. down the street we went. so there we were, arnie briggs, the 50-year-old mailman and me the 20-year-old college student. my boyfriend tom miller, the ex-all american football player. when other runners would come by, they would say, it's a girl. they were so excited. and all of a sudden the press truck is in front of us. they're taking, you know, pictures of us. the r