The United Nations was founded right after World War II in the hope of providing a mechanism that would resolve conflicts without nations resorting to armed conflict, thereby fostering peace and prosperity around the globe. The UN was meant to become the hub through which the Member States (now numbering 193 nations) could communicate, and […]
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Adam and Eve after the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution Mary Eberstadt Ignatius Press, 2012; 171 pages, $19.95 As Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s mandate requiring all health-insurance plans to cover contraception “free of charge” to women took effect August 1 of this year, Mary Eberstadt’s collection of essays Adam and Eve […]
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Womenomics Write Your Own Rules for Success Claire Shipman and Katty Kay HarperBusiness, 2009; 256 pages, $27.99 Some time after Rosie the riveter helped in the World War Two effort, the percentage of women working outside the home doubled and women made their way into the front offices. According to an April 1996 essay in […]
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Bad Girls Go Everywhere:The Life of Helen Gurley Brown Jennifer Scanlon Oxford University Press, 2009; 288 pages, $27.95 Beside Every Successful Man:A Woman’s Guide to Having it All Megan Basham Crown Forum, 2008; 256 pages, $24.95 These books offer a fascinating look at two alternative models of husband-wife relationships. In each marriage, the spouses are working […]
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