Male/Female Roles | Early Marriage May Be the Best Choice for Women

In the following viewpoint, excerpted from Danielle Crittenden’s 1999 book What Our Mothers Didn’t Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman, Crittenden argues that working women in their late twenties and thirties feel unhappy and unfulfilled. Crittenden theorizes that these women were told by their feminist mothers that delaying marriage and family to pursue a career would provide them with the satisfaction that eluded 1950s housewives. According to Crittenden, however, many women have found that successful careers and independence cannot replace their intrinsic need...

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