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)
White women voters split 48-48 percent for Bush and Gore. Many women believed W would soft-pedal his party’s unforgiving stand on abortion at home and abroad. If W had told them what he really planned, he might have lost their votes–and the election.
Bush patriarchs favored family planning and reproductive rights. They also learned supporting reproductive privacy cost them the support of powerful religious conservatives. One stayed pro-choice; the other switched. What will W. do?
Ho! Ho! Ho! Ladies. Commercialism, our culture and the courts have denied you the gifts that empower. Instead, you get a few drops of testosterone, a frumpy housedress, pregnant chads that deny your vote and a hatpin for protection–you’ll need it.
When women reach middle age and finally have a crack at power and influence, they are struck by the pervasive double standard of aging: Men can look like unmade beds and gain in gravitas while women are judged ruthlessly on their looks and often silenced.
Feminists have placed the treatment of Afghan women on the agenda of the United Nations and human rights organizations worldwide, and now the tiniest crack has opened, indicating that the nation’s rulers may in fact be beginning to hear the roar.
U.S. Senate hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton may be riding the coattails of a famous relative and may also be trying to vindicate her spouse, as her female critics claim. Caryl Rivers argues: So what? The guys do it too and are not judged as harshly.
While boys’ problems and some girls’ problems have been exaggerated for political reasons, the fact remains that anti-violence, anti-bullying and anti-harassment messages are good for boys and that both girls and boys need help.
New studies indicate that while wage gaps between women and men in entry-level jobs are slight, working mothers are paid 70 cents for every dollar that men receive. For childless women, the gap is 10 cents on the dollar.
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