Word: superwomen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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COVER: The superwomen are weary; the young are complacent. Is there a future for feminism...
...they don't need to identify with women in order to compete equally with men. Unfortunately, many recent Radclife alumnae have said they wish they had been more prepared as students for life beyond the Ivory Tower, where they have had to face sex discrimination, harassment and the unattainable "superwomen" ideals to which they once aspired...
Forget about Marguerite Higgins, Mary Welsh Hemingway or the shoulder-padded heroines whom Rosalind Russell used to play in the movies. Those female legends of the '30s and '40s may have been superwomen, but consider the perfections of Claudia Hampton, war correspondent, popular historian, prized sexual partner to many men. (Claudia is also a terrible mother, but that seems to go with the territory...
...mothers. No fewer than 117 nations guarantee maternity leave, and the U.S. is the only advanced democracy not on the list. Though women employed by major American corporations are mostly protected, she observes, more than 60% of U.S. working mothers have no right to take maternity time off. "American superwomen are meant to have children on the side, on their own time, and the less said about it the better," says Hewlett. "In this country there is little appreciation of the fact that having children is a societal imperative as well as a private choice, that children are a nation...
...sung. Bringing the full weight of her massive voice to bear on the torturous part, Marton demolished its fearsome technical difficulties while touchingly developing the heroine from a frigid despot into a tender, vulnerable woman. This week at the Met she takes on another of opera's superwomen, Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelia...