Feminists Still Aren't Happy

It's really pretty funny to read all the psychoanalyzing of the feminists by themselves. They just don't understand why all surveys show that women are not as happy as they were in 1970 before the feminist movement got started.

But every now and then, a feminist writer makes a sensible comment. For example, Joanne Lipman, who held several of the biggest jobs in publishing, writes that feminists defined "progress for women too narrowly; we've focused primarily on numbers at the expense of attitudes." She's right about that. Attitude is the problem with feminists; as long as they believe they are victims of an oppressive patriarchy, they will never be successful. Women won't be happy as long as they believe the false slogan that women make only 77 cents on the dollar compared to men. The Equal Pay Law was passed in 1963, but it requires equal pay only for equal work, and women in the labor force don't work nearly as many hours per week as men do, and women voluntarily choose jobs with pleasanter working conditions and lower pay.

Only one sentence in all these feminist articles that have flooded the press in recent weeks confronts the fundamental reason why today's women are not as happy as women were in 1970. Time Magazine admitted: "Among the most dramatic changes in the past generation is the detachment of marriage and motherhood." That's exactly what the feminist movement did to America.

All those impressive statistics about women holding well-paying jobs and receiving college degrees will not produce happy women as long as 39% of children are born to unmarried mothers who lack a loving husband and look to Big Brother Government as provider. And in rejecting marriage, most feminists also rejected the grandchildren who could have provided a significant measure of women's happiness.

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