Check out 'Life on Mars'

There has been a lot of buzz about the AMC TV series "Mad Men," and how the show depicts the very beginnings of the changing roles of men and women. Set in the early 1960s, the show portrays unhappy wives and secretaries locked into miserable lives, and just beginning to "rebel."


If you want to watch an interesting show that takes place a decade later (precisely in 1973), check out "Life on Mars," which airs tonight (Thursdays) at 10 pm on ABC. In this show, you will see women taking the next step in the "women's movement," as the show depicts a woman on the police force, although she has far from equal status with men.

Perhaps someday a "Women's Studies" student will write a dissertation comparing the two shows, along with a 1980s show ("Hill Street Blues?") and a 1990s show ("The X-Files?") and one from this decade ("Grey's Anatomy?").

It certainly would be an interesting study of the changing roles of men and women.