The Critique of Feminism.

The rallying cry "women's liberation" entered the English language during the 1960s. More than thirty years later, few countries around the world were without a women's movement, and few governments were immune to its demands. During the 1990s traditional notions of female roles continued to erode, and the "gender gap" narrowed. The women's movement in the United States made enormous progress in ending discrimination in education, government, employment, and the law. Throughout the decade, however, more and more American women began to criticize the feminist agenda as irrelevant to their lives. "If you become a doctor, the feminists are right behind you," declared nurse midwife LaVonne Wilenken of Antelope Valley, California, in 1994, but "they've done very little for the average woman." This sentiment became more widespread. Women who were minorities, poor, fulfilling traditional roles of wife and mother, and doing...