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...helped make their lives more complex and difficult. But for all the discontent and frustration expressed by women today, a vast majority revels in the breakthroughs made during the past quarter-century: the explosion of roles for women, their far greater participation in the country's political and intellectual life, the many options that have come to replace their confinement to homemaking. Very few women would like to turn back the clock. A TIME/CNN survey conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman of 1,000 women across the country found that 77% think the women's movement has made life better. Only...
...speak of a second phase that would be quite different from the first. Friedan, as usual, was out front. In her 1981 book The Second Stage, she called on her feminist sisters to go beyond "sexual politics" that cast man as the enemy and denied women's "roots and life connection in the family." The movement must change its focus, she argued, from succeeding in a man's world on a man's terms to achieving a balance between this new role and woman's traditional roles as mother and tender of the hearth. To achieve that balance, urged Friedan...
...what does that mean in practical terms? Some of the needs are obvious. There is no balancing the demands of work and family life -- for men or for women -- without a national consensus on family policy. Part of this is guaranteeing employed parents the right to take time off after the birth or adoption of a child without risking the loss of their job; more than 100 nations ensure such rights for women workers, according to Sheila Kamerman, a social-policy professor at Columbia University. Equally essential is some sort of financial aid or subsidy to help the working poor...
Nowhere is this creeping globalism more striking than in high-definition television. Six months ago, American electronics manufacturers were using apocalyptic terms to describe the race to build tomorrow's TV sets, calling it a life-and-death struggle for economic survival. But plans for a coordinated U.S. effort quickly got bogged down in arguments over technical standards...
...Moawad was buried is a hopeful sign and shows the depth of Lebanon's yearning for peace. But Aoun will have to put aside his dream of ejecting the Syrians if Lebanon is to avoid disintegrating further into the anarchy sought by Moawad's killers. If Aoun does not, life in the country will soon resemble life in Thomas Hobbes' state of nature: "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short...