Fifty years ago, the AJS had a special issue dedicated to the topic of “Changing Women in a Changing Society” (Vol 78, No. 4) bringing almost two dozen papers together from leading scholars on the position of women in American society, in academia, and in sociology. This issue, edited by Joan Huber, included pieces ranging in approach from the demographic analyses of Valerie Kincaid Oppenheimer to the autobiographical work of Jessie Bernard.  Kimberly Hoang and Kristen Schilt have guest edited a special return to these themes, fifty years later, asking newer cohorts what has changed?  What is the same?  This symposium will appear as a special feature following the November articles. Our thanks to Julian Go, book review editor, for allowing us to use these pages for this important commemoration.”