Men Quote by Rebecca Traister

“..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

“Andrea Dworkin famously commented that “Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice.” In”

— Rebecca Traister

Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life.

— Rebecca Traister

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

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

“Friedan also didn’t consider the population of American women who were already altering marriage patterns,”

— Rebecca Traister

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

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

“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

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

In 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 64 percent of mothers with children under six worked.

— Rebecca Traister

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