Lessons From the New Feminism: The Weekly Mentor

By Oliver DeMille

Once again in 2013 we have a new focus in feminism.

Years ago, feminism stood for the rights of women, and later an emphasis on women being treated the same as men.

Then came the time when feminism was all about career options for women, and finally in the 1990s and 2000s the focus was on how women can "have it all," meaning fulfillment from both career and family.[i]

A big shift occurred in 2009-2011, when a host of articles showed that there are now more women than men in college, that women did much better than men financially in the Great Recession from 2008 to 2010, and that if current trends hold, the economic future for women in the United States is much more promising than for men.[ii]

For a time, authors suggested that maybe the feminist fight was over because women have won.[iii]

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Oliver DeMille is a co-founder of the Center for Social Leadership, and a co-creator of TJEd.

He is the author of A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the 21st Century, The Coming Aristocracy: Education & the Future of Freedom, and FreedomShift: 3 Choices to Reclaim America's Destiny.

Oliver is dedicated to promoting freedom through leadership education. He and his wife Rachel are raising their eight children in Cedar City, Utah.