In the early 1970's, feminism promised to remake the world for women and create a new cultural landscape where women have equality with men. But forty years later, this attempted reboot has not occurred. Only a small minority of women have ever self-identified as feminists, and women overall are less happy today. In many ways progress is now stalled. Has feminism failed, or have we been thinking wrongly about gender issues all along?
Both are true. Feminism sought too little systemic change and didn't build a national consensus that it should succeed. While the book "The End of Men"...
In the early 1970's, feminism promised to remake the world for women and create a new cultural landscape where women have equality with men. But fo...