Wonder Women

Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act and the publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminist Mystique, are women still living in a man’s world? If so, why has progress been uneven?

In her new book, Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection, Debora Spar explores how American women’s lives have—and have not—changed over the past five decades.

Raised after the 1960s and one of the youngest female professors to be tenured at Harvard Business School, Spar was convinced the fight for women’s rights was over. But today, the challenges women face are more complex than ever. Spar argues that women’s struggle for power has transformed into an endless quest for perfection and that it’s time to shift gears. Her rich cultural analysis of the past fifty years also serves as a guide to give the women’s movement a new course.

Join New America Foundation, Debora Spar and Liza Mundy for a conversation on Wonder Women and the future of feminism.

Coffee will be served. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

Participants

Debora Spar
President, Barnard College
Author, Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection

Liza Mundy
Director, Work and Family Program, New America Foundation
Author, The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family