Is This 15-Year-Old Feminist A New Kind Of Gloria Steinem In The Making? Killing Us Softly 4 part 1. This Woman's Beef With Prettiness Will Leave You Speechless. Raising girls as victims. Photo: Getty Images Often we wring our hands and sigh about how to raise girls in the midst of confected media panic and outrage. Girls at risk from sex! Girls at risk from sexting! Girls at risk from teen pregnancy! Girls at risk from clothes! Girls at risk from no self-esteem! So, it was with huge relief that I read the news Steve Biddulph, best-selling author of the parenting guide Raising Boys, had stepped into the disaster zone that is feminism's mishandling of female adolescence with his new book, Raising Girls, on "the girl question". Biddulph, a rather polarising character in the parenting world, says we need a more active feminism.
Biddulph's choice of words to describe girls is revealing: they're damsels we need to “save”, they are “anxious”, their situation is a “catastrophe” and they're under “sustained assault”. Advertisement By using words that emphasise physical assault, we instil fear. There's no doubt that girls are facing significant stresses. Breaking through Barriers for Women and Girls | AAUW. The Institute for Women’s Policy Research — IWPR. 9to5 | Change the Workplace, Change the World. National Partnership for Women and Families: Because Actions Speak Louder Than Words. AAA Alphabetical TED Women Talks List.
Are Men Finished? Hide captionChristina Hoff Sommers and David Zinczenko argued against the motion that "Men Are Finished" in an Intelligence Squared U.S. debate on Sept. 20. Bryan Archbold Christina Hoff Sommers and David Zinczenko argued against the motion that "Men Are Finished" in an Intelligence Squared U.S. debate on Sept. 20. Last year, women made up the majority of the U.S. workforce for the first time ever. There are more women earning college degrees than men. It can't be long before the script is flipped on our traditionally male-dominated society, with women taking over the position of power. Right? Or is our society just rebalancing itself, with women catching up to men but not replacing them? A group of experts recently faced off over whether we're facing a man-tastrophe in an Oxford-style debate, part of the Intelligence Squared U.S. series.
John Donvan, correspondent for ABC News' Nightline, moderated the debate on Sept. 20. Margaret Atwood.