Millennial Women Empowered

[JasonBlack]

Addressing a few points from these articles

Quote:Meanwhile, over the past 15 years, the drug overdose rate for 25- to 34-year-old women has skyrocketed from 2.9 deaths per 100,000 women to 12.5 deaths. Over that time, the share of 30- to 34-year-olds living below the federal poverty line has risen from 12% among Generation X to 17% among Millennials. To be sure, these aren’t young-woman-only problems; drug addiction affects both genders and all ages, and young men are at least as affected by economic hardship as young women.

Given Millennials are a Civic generation and Gen X Reactive, this increase is a little more concerning that those outside of S&H Theory are likely to recognize

Quote:Of course, Millennial women are still grappling with many of the social and structural barriers their mothers and grandmothers did. Pew reports that Millennial women are nearly as likely as older women to agree that “it’s a man’s world.”

One thing that bothers me about a lot of feminist research is that they ask questions like "do you feel like this is true?" and treat that as if it's evidence or something. In this case, it's basically been something we've been taught to say for the last 20+ years, so that isn't enough to convince me of much. Ironically, feminist Germaine Greer perhaps said it better than anyone: "it's not the spider's fault that I'm afraid of it"

Quote:But this rising sense of empowerment comes with downsides and caveats. For one, increased freedom of choice creates greater pressure on women to dedicate themselves equally to family and career—an anxiety-wracked, and some argue, unrealistic ideal. Pew Research Center has found, moreover, that wage gaps between women and men tend to widen over time. And then there’s the fact that the expansion of choice does not even apply to many Millennial women. A rising share are single mothers who did not complete college—and today, a lack of a degree disadvantages single moms more today than it did for earlier generations.

Given the degree to which traditional marriage has been denigrated in the United States as of late, this is hardly surprising.