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The Feminist Revolution-Did It Backfire?

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A friend pointed me to this article by Maureen Dowd. The link is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/opini ... ml?_r=1&em

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Women are getting unhappier, I told my friend Carl.

“How can you tell?” he deadpanned. “It’s always been whine-whine-whine.”

Why are we sadder? I persisted.

“Because you care,” he replied with a mock sneer. “You have feelings.”

Oh, that.

In the early ’70s, breaking out of the domestic cocoon, leaving their mothers’ circumscribed lives behind, young women felt exhilarated and bold.

But the more women have achieved, the more they seem aggrieved. Did the feminist revolution end up benefiting men more than women?
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Read the rest here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/opini ... ml?_r=1&em
 
The end of the article sums it up as follows.

"Stevenson looks on the bright side of the dark trend, suggesting that happiness is beside the point. We’re happy to have our newfound abundance of choices, she said, even if those choices end up making us unhappier.

A paradox, indeed."
 
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