Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.
A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.
In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.