The New Feminist Agenda

Defining the next revolution for women, work and family. Feminists opened up thousands of doors in the 1960s and 1970s, but, decades later, are US women where they thought they'd be? The answer is a resounding no. Women now comprise nearly 60 per cent of college undergraduates and half of all medical and law students. They have entered the workforce in record numbers, making the two-wage-earner family the norm. However, social structures surrounding work and family have remained static. Affordable, high-quality childcare, paid family leave, and equal pay for equal work remain elusive. It's time, says former US Ambassador and Governor Madeleine M Kunin, to change all that and usher in a new social revolution--one that mobilizes women, and men, to call for the kind of policies that can improve the lives of women and strengthen their families.