Male/Female Roles | Women Should Reject Feminism

In the following viewpoint Resa LaRu Kirkland argues that feminism has had a devastating effect on women and children. Prior to the women’s liberation movement in the 1960s, according to the author, men respected women for their tenderness. However, Kirkland argues that by encouraging women to leave their homes and join the workforce, feminism stripped women of this tenderness and thus of the respect they once received from men. In addition, Kirkland contends, when women went to work, they abandoned their children to nannies and day care. As a result, in her opinion, children today are...

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