Women Who Make The World Worse Hardback - 2005

by O'Beirne, Kate

A top conservative writer explores the feminist assault on our families, schools, workplaces, and military

As a woman, Kate O'Beirne can say things a male commentator could never get away with. In her long-awaited first book, she takes on America's leading feminists including Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Eleanor Smeal, Maureen Dowd, Kate Michelman, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and even Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw. She confronts them with hard evidence of how women like them have done more harm than good over the last four decades.

O'Beirne is all for women's equality and celebrates the unprecedented opportunities they enjoy today. But she faults those feminists who believe that a hostile patriarchy reigns and that women remain its helpless victims. Their agenda is not profemale; it's merely antimale.

Women Who Make the World Worse shows how their destructive handiwork can be felt in every corner of American life, including:
á fractured families and dispensable dads
á offices and schools that have become battlegrounds in the gender wars
á military units that put lives at risk to promote social engineering

This book takes on some very powerful women and challenges beliefs that have become feminist orthodoxy, starting with the myth that men are the enemy of women's progress. O'Beirne marshals her allies, prepares for a good fight, and never loses her sense of humor. This is a provocative book that will appeal to anyone, male or female, who wants some old-fashioned common sense about relations between the sexes.

'We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This was one group where liberals didn't ask why there wasn't a more pleasing gender balance, because the Upper West Side is not fireproof. What happens in combat in some distant field is abstract to liberals, but they can understand the need to have strong, brave men in their fire department.' Kate O'Beirne