Is This A Culture War Blueprint? - Isabel Brown

Chris Williamson · · 9 min

Chris Williamson talks with Isabel Brown about how cultural institutions have framed family and career as incompatible, and why she sees this as a failure of genuine feminism.

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The gist

  1. Brown links today's messaging against marriage and family to 1963 congressional records documenting communist goals to destabilize the family unit.
  2. She argues the real barrier to women balancing career and family is corporate policy, such as funding abortion instead of maternity leave, not personal capacity.

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