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As if the media messages aren’t bad enough, we must contend with powerful women in politics. In late 2009, Maria Shriver wrote a 400-page report in conjunction with the left-wing think tank, Center for American Progress, called “The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything.” Its premise is that the traditional family is a thing of the past, and Americans must wake up to the new world we’ve created. Women run things today — and that’s just the way it is. Writes Shriver,
As we move into this phase we’re calling a woman’s nation, women can turn their pivotal role as wage-earners, as consumers, as bosses, as opinion-shapers, as co-equal partners in whatever we do into a potent force for change. Emergent economic power gives women a new seat at the table—at the head of the table.
The Shriver Report was delivered to each of the Fortune 500 companies, all 535 members of Congress, and President Obama — who says he’s constantly looking for ways to improve women’s lives. He and Nancy Pelosi believe American women are victims of discrimination — based on the fact that women make 77 cents for every dollar men earn. As President Obama said a few weeks ago in his Presidential Proclamation on “Women’s Equality Day”:
As we celebrate this important milestone and the achievements and shattered ceilings of the past, we also recognize the inequalities that remain and our charge to overcome them. Almost 50 years after the Equal Pay Act was enacted, American women still only earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn. These disparities remind us that our work remains unfinished. My Administration remains committed to advancing women’s equality in all areas of our society and around the world.
Fortunately, smart women (i.e. conservative women) know true empowerment does not lie in feminist ideology. The only way to be truly empowered is for women to reject so-called feminism, embrace marriage and motherhood (if that is what they desire, and most do), find meaningful work — which includes raising children, caregiving, and volunteering — and stay true to themselves and their principles.
That other path — the one young women are exposed to a daily basis — is nothing but a dead-end road.
Suzanne Venker is an author, blogger, and speaker. Her new book, What Conservative Women Know, will be published March 2011. Her website is www.suzannevenker.com.
