At the Independent Women’s Forum blog, Carrie Lukas has written a response to my TownHall column on what the rise of high-earning women will and should mean for gender roles. It’s a easy-to-ready, snappily written post, which is only marred by a few total misunderstandings of my arguments and an overall failure to understand the … [Read more…]
The New York Times has an interesting think piece up on upper-class gender relations: Wall Street Mothers, Stay-Home Fathers. The thrust of the piece is that many of the women with children who manage to make a killing on Wall Street are able to do so because their husbands have taken their feet off the gas … [Read more…]
Here’s the video from my recent SFL Webinar, Women and the Moral Case for Liberty. This was actually quite a controversial webinar. Many people were very upset that SFL would actually host someone willing to talk about feminism. In Europe, I was accused of being a “socialist infiltrator.” In the US, people, as per ush, … [Read more…]
I’m a privileged white feminist. I write about lady issues because they’re interesting to me and because not enough free-market types are doing it. And when they do it, they do it super badly. Honestly, I think racism is a much bigger issue than sexism in America right now, but I don’t write about it … [Read more…]
Taking on the whole Amanda-Palmer-responds-to-Sinead-O’Connor-writing-to-Miley-Cyrus-about-twerking brouhaha, Lisa Wade, a sociology professor at Occidental College makes some really spot-on, well-articulated, interesting, and not-often-enough-expressed points. I’ll just quote the part I really like: Women do have more choices – many, many more choices – than recent generations of women. They are now free to vote in elections, … [Read more…]