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Author: Debora L. Spar | Language: English | ISBN: B00C2RXWUE | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act, why are women still living in a man’s world?

Debora L. Spar never thought of herself as a feminist. Raised after the tumult of the 1960s, she presumed the gender war was over. As one of the youngest female professors to be tenured at Harvard Business School and a mother of three, she swore to young women that they could have it all. “We thought we could just glide into the new era of equality, with babies, board seats, and husbands in tow,” she writes. “We were wrong.”

Now she is the president of Barnard College, arguably the most important all-women’s college in the United States. And in Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection—a fresh, wise, original book— she asks why, a half century after the publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, do women still feel stuck.

In this groundbreaking and compulsively readable book, Spar explores how American women’s lives have—and have not—changed over the past fifty years. Armed with reams of new research, she details how women struggled for power and instead got stuck in an endless quest for perfection. The challenges confronting women are more complex than ever, and they are challenges that come inherently and inevitably from being female. Spar is acutely aware that it’s time to change course.

Both deeply personal and statistically rich, Wonder Women is Spar’s story and the story of our culture. It is cultural history at its best, and a road map for the future.  

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• Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books; 1st edition (September 17, 2013)
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• Language: English
• ASIN: B00C2RXWUE
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I am a feminist of the old school, old enough to be the author's mother, and it has been a while since I read a book on the topic so I was interested to see how the generations were faring ....I was not pleased.
There are some good points but they seem lost in the shuffle. What I mostly heard was a woman trying very hard to convince us, and maybe herself, that her perceptions of the world and her experiences were typical and her choices valid. It really didn't sound much different from "is this all there is," in the seventies, just cast in a different set of scenery. So, she wears white after labor day and doesn't obsess over yellow wax buildup? She still seems to look around her at what others are doing and what the media tell her, and does that. So much for independent choice.
The author lives, first of all, in rather rarified air. Believe it or not most women and men do not make it to the top of their professions (there is not room at the top for everyone to be at the top, for one thing) and most of them don't have professions at all. This is the 1% speaking. Hard to get excited about women lawyers making a few hundred thousand less than their male counterparts when you know a huge percent of women...and men...are living on minimum wage or not much more and have no hope of rising to the top of anything. Moreover, believe it or not, some people don't equate a fulfilling life with money and fame.
The author seems to have a very morbid fear of aging, a conviction that all women want to...no, MUST bear children to prove their value, and hanging out in a profession that puts her mostly in the company of twenty year olds may be what has her obsessing over shoes and fashion and waxing her legs, like the bimbos we former-day feminists were so driven not to emulate.

I thought this book did a great job of showing how even though women today have endless choices and opportunities in all aspects of life - how far to take their education, whether to marry or work or have children, whether to alter their bodies through diets or surgery or even Botox - women still cannot move through the world as though they are men, especially women with children.

Sure, it's great advice to tell single women to marry a supportive spouse, but even the ones who start out this way over time still get stuck with more than half the home responsibilities, high school drop outs and PhDs alike. There are many reasons for this. Professional women generally want to marry successful men, which often means the husband will be traveling and working long hours. Unless you're a former Google exec with uber wealth that can afford round the clock help - nannies, personal chef, errand runners, personal stylist, etc. - something's got to give. While I believe it's useful to inform women planning to have children not to let their foot off the gas until and unless this becomes necessary (i.e., Sheryl Sandberg - whose book I also read and liked, just didn't completely agree with), I also believe telling women to Lean In without fully divulging just how much hired help it takes to get through a day and maintain some level of sanity - dinner on the table, house clean, fresh clothes in everyone's dresser - is not fully genuine. Most professional women I know with children are hanging on by a mere thread. Their lives are in chaos and they are on the verge of burning out. Most work because they have no choice, despite attending top colleges and marrying well. Yelling 'harder, faster' doesn't accomplish much other than making them feel judged and inferior. Tell us how...!

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