Each play deals with women forcibly asserting themselves in what was once designated a man's world.

"I lost my identity," another woman would assert, describing the replacement of her name by a number.

Through handcrafts and home improvement, women asserted their power over the household.

The family remains a cohesive force, but the divorce rate is climbing as women assert themselves at home and in the workplace.

"He should not have gone down there, and I told him so," the old woman asserted.

Country's women, meanwhile, are asserting themselves as never before.

"One does get so mortal weary," asserted the small woman, almost defiantly.

But none would say what the woman had asserted in the original complaint.

A 60-year-old woman asserted that she had been hit by a car.

And they had the bad luck to enter the labor force just as women were asserting their rights to the really good jobs.