the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

Instead of confronting its real and difficult problems and grappling honestly with a dark past, Hungary embraced a reactionary government and a self-pitying image of itself as the victimized nation, and went looking for scapegoats in the Roma, Jews, and, most recently, Syrian migrants.

the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

I write to figure out what I am thinking: What does my life mean?

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.

Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves-instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.