Women of my

generation have acquired all the responsibilities that come with sexual equality (i.e., earn your own paycheck), but few of the equal benefits (again: see paycheck). We’re encouraged to be “empowered” but vilified for being feminists. We have more career opportunities than ever, but somehow we still get the message that a bustier, not a brain, is the real source of “Girl Power.” We’re urged to put on Nike cross-trainers and “Just Do It”—but we’re encouraged to “just do it” while consuming twelve hundred calories a day and weighing no more than 103 pounds. We’re inspired to scale the corporate ladder, but we’re fully aware that it still bumps up against the glass ceiling—and that, more often than not, some guy is still peeking up our skirts as we climb.
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