Caryl Rivers is a co-author of "The New Soft War on Women: How the Myth of Female Ascendance is Hurting Women, Men — and Our Economy." (Tarcher/Penguin)
Cloning has enormous consequences for women as bearers and caregivers for cloned children. Yet men dominate the places where the decisions are made: scientific research teams, huge hospitals, big biotech companies and government bureaucracies.
David Brock, former writer for the American Spectator, now reveals that he lied about Anita Hill in order to discredit her. Essayist Caryl Rivers notes that Hill is one of a long line of women who spoke the truth, were vilified and later vindicated.
A sociologist warns that young people who seek soul mates in marriage may be setting their sights too high. This author replies, good riddance to old gender scripts about solid providers and homemakers. Let’s hear it for the qualities of mind and heart.
Conservatives extol the mom, pop, and kids family model and describe it as traditional. But Americans throughout history were not particularly child-friendly or chaste. Serial marriages and illicit sex were common, as were births to unmarried women.
On Mother’s Day, let’s remember our foremothers were working mothers. They didn’t sit around the campfire waiting for men to return with dinner. Throughout history and prehistory, women worked, hunted and often fought side by side with men.
Parents with children in child care should not be worried by the results of the latest study on the effects of non-full-time-mommy care. In fact, the study should hearten many parents seeking to raise smart kids.
Jane Swift, pregnant with twins, is Massachusetts’ governor-elect. Critics ask: Can a mother of babies be governor? Is it “natural”? But frontier women raised children, engaged in farming, trade, weaving, healing. For Jane Swift, this job’s a snap.
The health and well-being of women and girls could suffer if tax dollars support some religious views about male dominance, spousal abuse, the ideal family structure, the primacy of marriage and the dangers of sexuality, especially teen sexuality.
In 300 A.D., a Christian priest named Valentine became a saint through beheading. Now a popular book urges all wives to do the same–become a “Surrendered Wife” who loses her head, cares not about family finances and learns the value of submission.
The pantheon of first ladies ranges from feisty Abigail Adams to more traditional first spouses. First Lady Laura Bush will make her own place, but already she has parted ideologically from her husband by saying abortion should remain legal.
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