 "The Women's Room" was published in 1977, but the novel is written as a reflective work, following the main character, Mira, from adolescence in the late 1940s to adulthood and independence in the 1960s.Mira's primary childbearing years were in the 1950s, during the Baby Boom.Though she had only two children, many of her friends throughout the novel had three or more.