How Many Feminists Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?

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We need to focus on valuing not just women for what they can do to be like men, but to value the traditional work of women. That means valuing it when men do it, and assuming that men will do as much care in the home as we now expect women to bring in as much income in the office. Anne marie: In order to re define the future, you need to know your history. And i'll give you an example, the the idea of patriarchy, in the idea that women have always been the second sex. Is that true? Well the answer is no. If you go back to only eight thousand b c, and you look at the oldest

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Washington power player who upset the feminist applecart. At the peak of her career — as first female Director of Policy Planning at the US State Department — she turned her back on her dream job with Hillary Clinton in order to spend more time with her teenage sons. How, cried her contemporaries, could she have sacrificed her high-powered career for her family? Slaughter’s ensuing article for The Atlantic, ‘Why Women Still Can’t Have It All’, went viral, sparking furious debate about how men and women juggle their working lives. Having it all, Slaughter argued, remained a mirage. Women who managed to be both mothers and top professionals were either ‘superhuman, rich or self-employed’. On January 26, Anne-Marie Slaughter came to the Intelligence Squared stage, together with Amanda Foreman, award-winning historian and presenter of the recent BBC documentary series The Ascent of Woman, which charts the role of women in society over 10,000 years. They were joined by...

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