Jan 3, 2010

Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women | Characters

Neil Bennett
Neil Bennett was one of the researchers involved in the 1986 Harvard-Yale marriage study, which concluded that college-educated, never-married women past the age of thirty had a slim chance of ever marrying. Bennett was a Yale University sociologist when stories about the as-yet-unpublished study on women’s marriage patterns ran in various media outlets. This study generated the idea that there was a ‘‘man shortage’’ in America, something Faludi denies in her book.

Allan Bloom
Allan Bloom was a professor at the University of...