While I certainly agree that the pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on women, and that women continue to bear the brunt of our society’s failure to support families, I take issue with the idea that feminism has failed women. In addition to historically espousing some of the very solutions mentioned in the article, including women’s communes, feminism has in fact led to enormous progress for women and girls.
While feminism unfortunately has not yet achieved true inclusivity or a reckoning with its history of racism, younger women often don’t credit feminism for the opportunities they can take for granted. Some don’t realize, for example, that the wage gap, while persistent, has shrunk considerably, that there wasn’t always such a thing as professional women’s sports, or even that girls weren’t always allowed to wear pants to school.