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The Paradox of Gender Equality

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Did you know that in developed countries, we have built the most educated, most liberated generation of women in human history? Yet women report being profoundly unhappy. Birth rates are collapsing.

Most educated men say they want equal partners, yet feel a crushing pressure to out-earn them. Most women hold high standards for a potential partner even as they support more gender parity in elite positions.

Nobody planned this. Nobody asked for it.

It is what happens when two forces pull in opposite directions, and we insist on pretending only one of…

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