Not ‘War on Women,’ ‘War on Women’s Fertility,’ Scholar Says

On 12.11.12, In feminism, Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D, Work and Family, By Betsy

Colleges and Labor Markets Should Adjust to Women’s Needs

By Napp Nazworth

This article was first published at The Christian Post on December 11, 2012.

There is not a “war on women,” but there is a “war on women’s fertility,” Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, an economist and president of the Ruth Institute, believes. Rather than view fertility as a problem to be solved, Morse argued Friday, fertility should be viewed as a gift from God. Colleges and labor markets should, therefore, adjust to the biological needs of women. (more…)

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Red Families v. Blue Families

On 09.01.10, In feminism, Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D, Reproductive Freedom, Work and Family, By Betsy

by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D.

Two academics stoke the culture wars by claiming that blue states have the correct recipe for making families.

This widely-discussed book seems to be about the differences between red states and blue states, between socially conservative and socially liberal America. In fact, it is about the differences between college educated women and everyone else. You could say this book is the “soft power” version of class warfare. The rich are deliberately making war on the poor, not to expropriate their material resources, but to establish social hegemony. They want complete social approval and legal support for a lifestyle from which they benefit and which harms others. (more…)

 
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On A New Women’s Movement: Going Beyond ‘Having It All’

On 11.30.94, In feminism, Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D, Work and Family, By Betsy

by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D

This article was originally published in the Acton Institute’s November and December 1994 issue.

The starting point for most discussions of women’s issues is the observation that women earn less money than men, with income equality as the implicit touchstone for the desirability of policies, personal or public. But defining one’s well-being in terms of one’s income is not self-evidently correct. In fact, it is extremely problematic to argue that one’s income is an accurate measure of one’s wealth, even on strictly economic grounds. (more…)

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