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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