"Why Is Feminism Still So Divisive?"

Please please please read this New Yorker article by Ariel Levy. It is on the very subject this blog is struggling with--how much feminism has achieved for women, and yet how we've utterly failed to address the thorny issues of motherhood, work, and caring for children. The article's final couple of paragraphs darn near knocked me flat. Did you know that in the United States, in 1971, both houses of Congress passed a non-partisan bill that would have made after-school care and early childhood education available on a sliding scale of tuition--to everyone who wished to access it, without making it mandatory for anyone? And the bill has been lost to history and all but forgotten because later that same year Richard Nixon vetoed it, and that opportunity was buried.

"So close," Levy writes. "And now so far. The amazing journey of American women is easier to take pride in if you banish thoughts about the roads not taken. When you consider all those women struggling to earn a paycheck while rearing their children, and start to imagine what might have been, it’s enough to make you want to burn something."

Thanks to Susan for passing the link to this article on to me.
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P.S. I've added a link to the questionnaire to the right.