re: #177 iceweasel

Attitudes, as well as economic realities, have something to do with the change. Most men really do want an equal partner. Not just in economic terms, but in many ways: educational, intellectual, etc.
Freidan got a few things wrong, but imo she was always right about that.

My mother gave me Simone De Beauvoir(sp?) book “The Second Sex” when I was about 13. I couldn’t finish it. All I remember is that she went on and on about how much she hated having a period. She was Jean Paul Sarte’s girlfriend. They were a real fun couple.

The flip side of “women who have a career are happier” is that women who are stay at home moms are considered second-class citizens. I remember prominent feminists (like Gloria Steinem) ripping stay-at-home moms as being lower than prostitutes.