40 years later; was the women's movement liberating to women?

I think that it did more harm than good.....Now if a woman does make the "I am woman hear me roar" choice...They they are considered a sell out....

I mean...No more holding car doors open....No more giving a lady your seat...No more Ladies first....And lots of other things...

Yea...I think it was more harm than good

I saw Germaine Greer being interviewed the other day!

She didn't think so!

Also read any letter today on E.P!...Women are still being used and abused by their partners!

That is NOT Liberating!

It was in many ways, but, I believe that it was more harmfull in other ways. Things could be worse, but they could be much better also.

Yes. As was the Women's Suffrage movement many many decades before.

Forty years ago the average family could survive on a single income. Now with the economic times as they are, what wife wouldn't like the choice to stay home with the kids. Freedom for women to go out into the work place to work has exchanged one kind of servitude for a financial one. There are great gains in respect for women in America. In a lot of other countries, women are still secondary citizens.

Yes, and it was liberating to men as well. What people choose to do with this liberation is not always positive. I have a better life than my mom, grandmoms, and great grandmoms. I am 29, own my own home, have the freedom to go to work, go to gym, own pets, clean or not clean, cook and not cook. I can spend or save my money how I choose. I have never been abused. I prefer my lifestyle to those from 40 years ago and more than most today even. I'm not against marriage nor kids, just for choice.

In some ways yes. It was liberating in bringing attention to wage discreptencies, and awakening women to possibilities. It gave us acess to our own credit, and allowed us to keep our own identities (and not be the odd one out).
So by and large yes, it was liberating. And is still a work in progress.

Absolutely. Was it some magic wand that made everything equal for women and erased all of the cultural bias against them..? obviously not. I think the fact that women went from being nearly unrepresented in the CEO's chair of major corporations to nearly being half of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 companies says a lot has changed for the better. I also think that it's time for another reappraisal of the family court system and how things are decided. The fact that men still get away with fathering a child and then taking very little responsibility financially and legally for that child's wellbeing is almost criminal. On the flip side... I think the preconception that children are always better off with their mother is outdated and should be addressed.
All in all women are far better off in 2009 than they were in 1969 professionally, personally, and legally but there is certainly room for improvement.

i dont know.
i was not around 40 years ago, so i cant really compare it to anything.

I really believe it was, now women can do pretty much any thing men can do (we almost nearly had a female president!!!)

I have personally seen the change in our society since the movement.