July 4, 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-Land of the Free
Why Women Still Can't Ask the Right Questions
by Naomi Wolf (06-30-12)
Naomi Wolf is the world-renowned open intellectual who played the leading purpose in supposed "third-wave" feminism as well as as an advocate of "power feminism," which holds which women must claim themselves politically in sequence to grasp their goals. She has advised the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton as well as Al Gore. Her books include The Beauty Myth as well as The End of America.
We are just recovering, in the United States, from the wholly predicted kerfuffle over the wail published by Anne-Marie Slaughter, former Director of Policy Planning during the State Department as well as the highbrow during Princeton University, called "Why Women Still Can't Have it All."The response was predicted because Slaughter's article is the single which is published in the US by the revolving expel of powerful (most mostly white) women each 3 years or so.
The article, whoever has created it, always bemoans the "myth" of the work-life change for women who work outward the home, presents the potion ceiling as well as work-family depletion as the personal revelation, as well as blames "feminism" for holding out this elusive "having-it-all ideal." And it always manages to evade the major process elephants in the room which is especially ironic in this case, as Slaughter was ragged out by crafting policy.
The problems with su! ch argum ents are many. For starters, the work-family change is no longer the women's issue. All over the grown world, millions of operative group with tiny children additionally regret the hours which they outlay away from them, as well as go home to bear the brunt of common domestic tasks. This was the "women's issue" fifteen years ago, perhaps, but right away it is an ambient tension of modern hold up for the era of women as well as group who are committed to gender equality.Read On:Project Syndicate: Naomi Wolf
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