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Editor’s note (from Chris) I know there will be people running to the blog to passionately defend modern feminism, and will insist this writer as misguided. But…if there wasn’t truly something troubling in the feminist message, then why do we have articles like this?
From the Daily Mail
It is the movement that, among its many triumphs, won women the vote. Yet, for the average modern woman, feminism is dead, research claims.
Just one in seven women describes herself as a ‘feminist’, it found, with younger women even less likely to describe themselves as such.
A third view traditional radical feminism as ‘too aggressive’ towards men, while a quarter no longer view it as a positive label. One in five describe it as ‘old-fashioned’ and simply ‘not relevant’ to their generation.
The website’s founder Siobhan Freegard added: ‘Modern women feel traditional feminism is no longer working for them, as it’s aggressive, divisive and doesn’t take into account their personal circumstances.
‘They simply don’t view men as “the enemy”. And it’s clear there is no longer a “battle of the sexes” but a coming together of the sexes to make society work for everyone in it.’
Nowadays, the survey claims, more than a third of younger women cannot imagine a time when men and women were not equal – a far cry from the society which inspired the Suffragette movement, which helped obtain universal franchise for women in 1928, or the Ford sewing machinists’ strike, which ultimately led to the Equal Pay Act of 1970.
Fewer than one in ten women aged 25 to 29 identified with feminism, compared with a quarter of those aged 45 to 50.
One in six said feminism had gone too far, ‘losing sight of the natural roles of men and women’. Instead of fighting for equality, two in five now want to ‘celebrate difference’ instead.
However, 70 per cent of younger women feel far too much is expected of them, with unprecedented pressure to ‘be red-hot lovers, domestic goddesses, climb the career ladder and look like supermodels’.
The majority of the 1,300 polled felt feminism should be about ensuring women have ‘real choice over their family, career and lives’, and to reinstate the value of motherhood.
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