Friday, October 23, 2015
Ms. Foundation Launches Campaign to Define 21st Century Feminism
What does feminism mean to you?
For a long time, I did not consider myself a feminist. In fact, for most of my life, I did not consider myself a feminist. This is embarrassing to admit, knowing what I know now. How could I have not been a feminist?
But this truth is all too common for white, middle-class women of my generation. As female members of Generation X, many of us grew up being told that we could be anything. We could do anything. The "glass ceiling" was being broken.
This gave us an assumption that we had equal rights with men. Why wouldn't we? . . .