Ruth Rosen is a former columnist for the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle, and Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Social Change. Her most recent book is The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America.
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Published in: 50.50Who said “We could have it all?”What Anne-Marie Slaughter and so many other privileged women have failed to understand is that the original women’s...
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Published in: 50.50The 'Obamacare' challenge to American individualismWhy don't Americans want universal health care ? And what is it about American political culture that causes the...
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Published in: 50.50The gender gap and the American presidential election
Will the gender gap that decisively helped Bill Clinton and Barack Obama win the presidency again? Only if women...
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Published in: 50.50Contraception: the new American soap opera
The war over contraception in America during the last bizarre month was never about religious freedom or women’s...
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Published in: 50.50Occupy: you can’t evict an idea
The Occupy movement has changed the national conversation in America, and challenged the rightward tilt of the...
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Published in: 50.50US Election 2010: Obama lost the terms of debate and a large segment of white women
The modern women's movement changed the terms of debate and eventually the national conversation. During this...