Wonder Women

Exceptional women, like exceptional men, lead the world forward – but if we get caught up in the exceptionalism narrative, we are in danger of dragging an out-of-date story into a future waiting to be told.

A woman’s existential imperative, her happiness, her contentment, her protection, her provisioning, her empowerment, literally anything that benefits the feminine is not only encouraged socially, but in most cases mandated by law.

We face a whole array of challenges in this area, from basic considerations, like earning enough money, to worrying about how we’ll be perceived by people around us for taking a different approach to work and life, to even feeling a sense of guilt for “giving up” what so many hardworking women struggled to have the opportunity to achieve.

Among the most striking features of the “unisex” literature of self-improvement is the poverty of the solutions offered to women in their quests for self-made success.