크리스티나 호프 소머즈의 "The Myth of the Gender Wage Gap"의 내용을 비판적으로 소개할 계획.
Women in the US and in western Europe are the freest and most liberated in human history. And in many ways they are not merely doing as well as men, they are doing better. Women's emancipation is one of the glories of Western civilization and one of the great chapters in the history of freedom.
So why then, are those in the women's movement, such as the leaders and members of activist groups like the National Organization for Women, the professors in Women's Studies departments at our colleges, and many women in the media, why are they still so dissatisfied?
These feminists hardly acknowledge women's progress. Yes, they concede that some advances have been made, but the fact that most women reject their activist brand of feminism and think of themselves as free is, for this crowd, proof of just how entrenched patriarchy and inequality truly are:
"Women are so oppressed, they don't even know it."
Year after year these activists make claims about women and violence, women and depression, women and eating disorders, women and workplace injustice, to support their views. Over the years, I have looked carefully at many of these claims.
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