Our Treacherous Hearts1992
why women let men get their way
by Ros Coward
So much appears to have improved for women. In theory they have equal pay and opportunity; working mothers are no longer stigmatized; women are moving into the highest levels of politics. Yet in many fundamental ways, little has changed. It is still mainly women who take care of dependents, interrupting or downgrading their careers to do so. Women continue to relinquish privilege and power to their male partners, and seem happy - at least at first - to make sacrifices for their children.
Are women really victims of a backlash against their newfound freedoms? Did feminism underestimate the satisfaction women get from mothering? Or is there evidence of a deeper complicity through which women keep themselves from breaking with traditional roles?
Our Treacherous Hearts looks at women's...