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Women: The Road Ahead
November 1, 1990

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American feminism late 1980s style could be defined, cynically, as women's rush to do the same foolish and benighted things that have traditionally occupied men. And why not? The good and honest things that have traditionally occupied women — like rearing children and keeping husbands in clean shirts — are valued in the open market at somewhere near the minimum wage. And whatever one thinks of investment banking or corporate law, the perks and the pay are way ahead of those for waitressing and data entry. So, every time a woman breaks a new barrier the rest of us tend to cheer — even if she's running a pollution-producing company or toting a gun in some ill-considered war...Read the full story