What Is Feminist Theory?
in management. However, the feminist who demands and obtains equality with the male (especially in the business world) is then regarded as “being one of the boys”. “Says Elaine Chin, Vice President for Prime Time Planning at ABC who wears Brooks Brothers jackets: ‘what man would listen to me if I wore dainty clothes? I’ve got to boss these guys around.'” (Auletta, p. 310) A look at today’s television- which is regarded as a “family entertainment” medium, finds that women are not “one of the boys”. “The status of women has hardly improved in TV land…37% of prime time characters are women…68% of TV shows have no women as producers…and 72% have no female writers.” (Lauzen, p. 79) Of course, there is Oprah Winfrey, but she seems to be regarded more as an icon rather than a woman. There is another serious problem with feminism: It discourages the elderly woman, who is no longer like her ancestor, bent over, wrinkled, shuffling along, missing teeth. “Life after fifty or sixty (for women) is
