There are a whole bunch of structural and systemic factors we need to address in order to move away from the model… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
'The Daily Show,' which was created by women, Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg, has earned quite a bit of ink for the… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of ways in which especially white men in this country have been helped by the government. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
'The End of Men' was an incendiary title, but the actual book was very sympathetic to men. It was very invested in… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
In 2008, I started the election season as a critic of Hillary Clinton, a fan of Barack Obama, and a supporter of… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
I think that technology - computers and smart phones and 24-hour availability - often leaves me, and others I know, feeling blank… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“..the expectations of Republican Motherhood – in which women’s obligations were the instilling of civic virtue in offspring and the moral maintenance of their… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“Andrea Dworkin famously commented that “Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice.” In” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
I'd spent my whole adult life considering myself an independent entity, my life filled by work and friends and family. Suddenly I had a… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
The lack of marriage is being blamed for almost every social ill - whether it's gun violence, whether it's poverty, whether it's the dropping… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“Friedan also didn’t consider the population of American women who were already altering marriage patterns,” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“In his 1873 Sex in Education; or A Fair Chance for the Girls, Harvard professor Edward Clarke argued that the female brain, if engaged… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
By the time Clinton graduated from Yale Law School, many people, including her boyfriend Bill, believed she could, and should, embark on a political… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
In 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 64 percent of mothers with children under six worked. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape,… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
