An Accurate Charting Of American Women's Progress

Divorced Men Are More Likely To Meet Their Car Payments Than Their Child Support Obligations.

For Some High-profile Men In Trouble, Women, Especially Feminist Women, Became The All-purpose Scapegoats-charged With Crimes That Often Descended Into The Absurd.

The Modern Fairy Tale Ending Is The Reverse Of The Traditional One: A Woman Does Not Wait For Prince Charming To Bring Her Happiness; She Lives Happily Ever After Only By Refusing To Wait For Him -- Or By Actually Rejecting Him. It Is Those Who Persist In Hoping For A Prince Charming Who Are Setting Themselves Up For Disillusionment And Unhappiness.

The Last Decade Has Seen A Powerful Counterassault On Women's Rights, A Backlash, An Attempt To Retract The Handful Of Small And Hard-won Victories That The Feminist Movement Did Manage To Win For Women. This Counterassault Is Largely Insidious: In A Kind Of Pop-culture Version Of The Big Lie, It Stands The Truth Boldly On Its Head And Proclaims That The Very Steps That Have Elevated Women's Position Have Actually Led To Their Downfall.

Women Who Had Discovered Pants, Low-heeled Shoes, And Loose Sweaters During World War Ii Were Reluctant To Give Them Up In Peacetime.