Metropolises like Cincinnati, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Seattle, and Denver boast single-dwelling households that comprise more than 40 percent of their total populations. According to Census data,1 Susa...
About the conditions as they have been. Meanwhile, angry art of the new era—from Naomi Alderman’s best-selling novel The Power; to Dietland, a television show about a women’s magazine . . . and a femi...
Yes, many single women, across classes and races, would like to marry, or at least form loving, reciprocal, long-term partnerships, but have not found mates who want the same thing, or who can sustain...
Women’s anger, publicly and loudly expressed, is all of that: unnatural, chaotic, upsetting to how power is supposed to work. Women’s determination to voice that fury toward men in 2017 and 2018 had l...
While marriage rates for middle-class white women soared through the 1940s and 1950s, for black women, mid-twentieth century conditions were very different. Since emancipation, black women had married...
The ability to narratively flip the dynamics of aggression and abuse—to view the less powerful as a menace to the aggressors—has been key to how white patriarchal structures have persisted.
The Women’s March on January 21, 2017 was the biggest one-day political protest in this country’s history, and it was staged by angry women.
Of course it’s not a waste to fight for justice, to work to right wrongs; but it is an extra tax on those already working from power deficits.
Nora Ephron explained in a 1996 commencement address at her alma mater, Wellesley College, about her own graduating class of 1962: We weren’t meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We wer...
In 2013, science writer Natalie Angier gave the centrality of female friendship a zoological boost, pointing out that, In animals as diverse as African elephants and barnyard mice, blue monkeys of Ken...
In 1969, University of Chicago sociology professor Marlene Dixon wrote that the institution of marriage is the chief vehicle for the perpetuation of the oppression of women . . .
In 1634, a bill was introduced to the House of Delegates in Maryland proposing that land owned by a spinster must be forfeited, should she fail to marry within seven years.7 Almost
I know there still are barriers and biases out there, often unconscious, she finally said, and the room roared in relief and affirmation. You can be so proud that, from now on, it will be unremarkable...
Friedan did not include black women in her vision. Black
Friedan also didn’t consider the population of American women who were already altering marriage patterns,
But there was no consideration that those single incomes were a result as much as a cause,
Black women got stuck with the hottest, dirtiest and most unsafe jobs in factories, and as Giddings writes, they were paid from 10 to 60 percent less than ill-paid White women.
As journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates has sensibly observed, human beings are pretty logical and generally savvy about identifying their interests. Despite what we’ve heard, women tend to be human beings and...
Anyone who wants power within a white male power structure has been asked to quell anything that sounds like wrath, to reassure that they come in cooperative peace and are not looking to mete out repe...
Anyone who lived through the 1960s should have known that the younger generation wins.