While the overwhelming majority of the American public recognizes and values basic equality between the sexes, only a minority of both women and men call themselves “feminists.” Too often, the concerns of modern feminism seem to track more closely with a laundry list of priorities of the progressive left than they do with the concerns of the majority of women, who – according to social science research – tend to value flexibility, interpersonal relationships, and family. Those who claim to speak “for women” all too often find themselves in conflict with the actual expressed priorities of women across the country.
