What are some different difficulties Skeeter faced when she returned from college?

Although some of Skeeter’s female friends had also gone off to Ole Miss with her, all the others went to college only to find and land husbands. They didn’t stay to earn degrees. Skeeter wants to be a journalist and to have her own career. When she comes home, she discovers she doesn’t have much in common with the others anymore. She doesn’t want to find a husband, settle down, and start raising a family. She’s not as interested in the Junior League as she used to be. She’s also begun to scrutinize Jackson society with regard to the traditional relationships held between the white employers and the black employees. She’s begun to accept the black maids as being valuable individuals in their own right. She doesn’t think they need their own bathrooms, like Hilly insists upon. She likes talking to them, even though she has to sneak around to do it. Skeeter’s character represents the movement toward equality in civil rights and women’s rights in America in the 1960s.