Danielle Crittenden

In the following viewpoint, Danielle Crittenden argues that while feminism may have expanded women’s opportunities in the workplace, it has stifled women’s personal lives by encouraging women to pursue careers at the expense of marriage and children. In their effort to prove that women could be fully independent, feminists have neglected the fact that most women consider family to be the most important aspect of their lives. Crittenden is the author of What Our Mothers Didn’t Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman. She is the former editor of the Women’s Quarterly, a publication of the Independent Women’s Forum, a nonprofit organization that promotes individual responsibility, strong families, and limited government.

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