Since President Trump started announcing his cabinet picks, I have been trying to write a Very Serious Essay about the Current State of Feminism.

When Pete Hegseth was confirmed, even after so many horrifying details of allegations of sexual assault and harassment, that seemed like an obvious blow to the basic ideals of gender equality. In a marginally just world for women, credible allegations of sexual or domestic violence would prevent a person from being considered for such a vaunted position in the first place.

I started trying to write this essay by gathering data about women’s progress and trying to quantify how it has stalled. Though the vibes seem truly awful, I didn’t want to go by just potentially illusory internet trends or the vile choices of our commander in chief.

Yet it would be disingenuous to ignore how far we have come since the 1970s, when most women didn’t even have access to credit. Women now outnumber men at American colleges and in the college-educated labor force. A higher percentage of Gen Z women say they’re feminists than women of any other generation.

But: Roe is dead. Who knows what might happen with access to contraceptives or abortion medication in the next four years?

We’re in a period of backlash against women’s progress, beyond what is happening in and around the Oval Office. “Surveys from 2024 show that support for traditional gender roles is increasing” among both Republican men and Republican women, according to the political scientists Michael Tesler, John Sides and Colette Marcellin in a guest essay for Times Opinion. They conclude that “any growing gender traditionalism may be a reaction to societal trends and not a cause of these trends.”

Milyon88 Official Website From the commentsMMichael SmithHagenfuren

I’m older generation and the widowed dad of a teenage boy. We weren’t raised with traditional notions of gender roles when I was younger, but the society in which we grew up was very rigid in all sorts of ways, so there wasn’t a way to escape this.I’m not familiar with the modern social media trends at all, but the cultural ‘gender wars’ have always been part of the social landscape since those days. That it has become ever more toxic is disturbing. I have experienced the pressure to be ‘more masculine’ in a variety of ways. I think boys do feel that generally in society, and that pressure doesn’t only come from other males.There are contradictory messages that end up confusing boys as they grow up to be men. These may come from home, movies, social conditioning, biology and media. What I find helps at home is to focus on respectful personal and civic relationships more, and to ignore gender roles in a social sense. I can’t speak for society out there, it seems to be getting worse day by day.Boys and men are vulnerable in many ways. This impacts on the women and girls in their lives. The hideous politicisation on both the extreme left and right of such an important issue makes the very real social problems so much worse. Promoting a healthy self-awareness and an understanding of how gender works in society could be really helpful.

Moss joined the Major League Baseball Players Association in 1967 as general counsel after serving as associate general counsel for the United Steelworkers of America, where he had worked with Miller, the union’s chief economist. With the players association, the two men would take annual trips to spring training to educate the athletes about trade-union thinking.

The schools chancellor’s resignation is the fourth in less than two weeks among top officials in Mayor Eric Adams’s administration, following the resignations of the police commissioner and the city’s top lawyer and a statement from the health commissioner saying he would leave office at the end of the year.

Read full commentJessica GroseOpinion Writer

@Michael Smith I agree. I think the more we can get girls and boys interacting in regular community the better.

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