"Behind this celebration of the American woman's victory, behind the news, cheerfully and endlessly repeated, that the struggle for women's rights is won, another message flashes. You may be free and equal now, it says to women, but you have never been more miserable," commented USA Today.

The USA Today further commented: "Women themselves don't single out the women's movement as the source of their misery. To the contrary, in national surveys 75 to 95% of women credit the feminist campaign with improving their lives, and a similar proportion say that the women's movement should keep pushing for change."

That "pushing for change" mentioned in the book excerpt includes making an effort to revive the campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which died in the 1970s. Indeed, last week the Democrat-controlled Congress reintroduced it as the Women's Equality Amendment (WEA).

The wording of the ERA and WEA is deceptively simple: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." But as Phyllis Schlafly pointed, when the ERA was undergoing its failed ratification process three decades ago, the Amendment would negate protections and privileges that women already enjoy, while actually securing for them no new rights that would benefit themselves and society.

1) In the event that conscription were to be reinstituted, women would not be exempt from a military draft and front-line combat, even if they were single mothers with young children. Americans have already learned about the ordeals of the few women captured in Iraq, who reported that they were beaten and sexually assaulted by their captors. Is this something that we would want to welcome, on the larger scale that the WEA would make possible?

2) The WEA would lead to gender quotas and affirmative action for women in police and fire departments. These are occupations where most women do not belong, because most women cannot meet the minimum strength requirements to do these jobs adequately. For example, how many women do you know who could carry an adult male up or down many flights of stairs in a burning building?

3) The WEA would render unconstitutional and illegal any organizations that are all-male or all-female. That would spell the end of the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, college fraternities and sororities, etc.

The WEA has nothing to do with equality or rights. It is simply a tool that radical feminists want to use, in order to force the United States to become a society that does not acknowledge and respect gender differences.

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