Male/Female Roles | Women Should Embrace Feminism

According to Katha Pollitt in the following viewpoint, feminism has provided women with many opportunities that were unavailable to earlier generations, including the right to seek an education, play sports, and pursue a career. Recently, however, a burgeoning generation of antifeminists are blaming feminism for many of the problems modern women experience, such as the difficulty of balancing career with family life and the disappearance of chivalry, she contends. Moreover, Pollitt maintains that a conservative government threatens to strip women of some of the freedoms they have won,...

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