The reality is that women pay a fearsome economic price for self-sacrificing choices in their later years, when twice as many older women fall below the poverty line, compared with men.
Men of all ages, races, religions, and backgrounds do it. Rich men do it, and poor men do it, in forms so varied and ubiquitous that they can be summoned at a moment’s notice.
Men like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dominique Strauss-Kahn have been abusing women and cheating on their wives since the invention of wedlock—but now more women are making them pay the tough consequences.
In Leslie Bennetts' long career interviewing famous women, only one—one—has ever admitted to being ambitious. Why are women so afraid to say they want power and so unwilling to plot a course to get it?
