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...Women’s (NOW) website (now.org) could tell her that more than simply “creating support groups for one another,” today’s feminists are devoted to a range of causes that she conveniently forgot to mention in her article. These include equal pay for equal work (even today, a woman earns just 75 cents for every dollar earned by her male counterpart), a workplace free of sexual harassment, accessible birth control under insurance plans and full protection of women’s rights under Roe vs. Wade. In addition...
...asserts, for instance, that “women in this country are now on an entirely equal footing with men.” What does she mean by this? She can’t mean that they hold as many top jobs (at Harvard, for instance, 18 of 19 University Professors are men, along with three-fourths of the faculty in general), nor that they have equal salaries. So presumably Rubins means that women now have the potential to do as well as men, but are held back by the “feminists of today...
...lacking a control group of women who are not exposed to feminism, she can’t say what might happen if feminism were not taught. So really, she’s just assuming that the genders are on an “equal footing.” Which, conveniently for her, means that the “feminists” are to blame for holding women back. But this is simply her conjecture, nothing more...
...boys.” They couldn’t have said it better in 1974. Twenty-five years ago, that sentence would have been considered a forward-thinking position; today it is still far from reactionary. And without it, without the assumption that women and men would be equal if only the “feminists” would leave us alone, her argument can’t exist. So in fact, what Rubins is unwittingly doing is throwing feminist analysis back at the feminists...
...recent years, however, feminism in America has found itself hopelessly bereaved of a cause for which to fight. Women in this country are now on an entirely equal footing with men and are sometimes even given preferential treatment. Instead of focusing on areas of the world where women are truly being oppressed, where they cannot show their ankles on the street without fear of being shot and killed, feminists of today spend their time creating support groups for one another and debating the relative disadvantages faced by girls in science and math classrooms. Feminism keeps women from naturally asserting their...