Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically.
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In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.
Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.
For Democrats to reduce women to beggars for cheap government-funded birth control is demeaning to the women that I know who are far more complicated than their libido and the management of their reproductive system.
Most women are one man away from welfare.
Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.
Single female life is not prescription, but its opposite: liberation.
The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
There are a whole bunch of structural and systemic factors we need to address in order to move away from the model in which women really are still dependent on men.
And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and maternity care, but would still charge us up to 50 percent more than men - for a worse plan.
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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