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Gloria Steinem gave feminism its face, its wit, and its nerve. But iPINIONS notes that her death at 92 also recalls the old battles over what the women’s movement should become, and the strange irony of young women now embracing the tradwife life Steinem and Betty Friedan fought to liberate them from. Read my full… Read more.
The May 30 edition of The Economist leads with a provocative, informative, and instructive article, heralding “social change” the like of which the world has not seen since decolonization and desegregation during the 1960s. The change referred to women being poised to dominate traditional professions. Soon, the representation of women in law, dentistry, accounting, and… Read more.
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. This was how the UK Evening News quoted Margaret Thatcher, then the Conservative MP for Finchley, turning male chauvinism on its head. No doubt it delighted her audience at the National Council of the Townwomen’s Guilds in… Read more.
Many liberated women believe that feminism remains in the death throes of a backlash because NOW was hijacked in the 1970s. They say it was taken from pioneering women like Betty Friedan, who thought the movement should focus on issues like equal pay, sex-neutral help-wanted ads, maternity leave, child-care centers for working parents, and legal… Read more.
