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There's No Question That The Black Middle Class Has Benefited Greatly By The Civil Rights Movement. But There Is A Large Black Underclass That Does Not Have Access To Jobs. If There's No Clear Road To Income And Status Except Crime, We Should Expect Social Problems. You Can't Solve This Problem Without Addressing The Economic Issues, And The Same Is True With Gender.

What Had Really Caused The Women's Movement Was The Additional Years Of Human Life. At The Turn Of The Century Women's Life Expectancy Was Forty-six; Now It Was Nearly Eighty. Our Groping Sense That We Couldn't Live All Those Years In Terms Of Motherhood Alone Was "the Problem That Had No Name." Realizing That It Was Not Some Freakish Personal Fault But Our Common Problem As Women Had Enabled Us To Take The First Steps To Change Our Lives.

The Feminists Had Destroyed The Old Image Of Woman, But They Could Not Erase The Hostility, The Prejudice, The Discrimination That Still Remained.

Today The Problem That Has No Name Is How To Juggle Work, Love, Home And Children.

I Can't Point To Any Major Episodes Of Sexual Discrimination In My Early Life. But I Was So Aware Of The Crime, The Shame That There Was No Use Of My Mother's Ability And Energy.