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Read the articles The Untold Truth about Women and Work by Margaret Wente (2018) and Epilogue: Opting out and Then What? by Ingrid Biese (2017). The articles raise some important questions about the goals and achievements of the feminist movement in the second and third waves. Reflect on the following questions in your discussion: What is your general reaction to these readings? Are you surprised? What is the "fatal flaw in the feminist assumption" as discussed by Margaret Wente? Why is it seen as a fatal flaw? Has the feminist movement been misleading to women? Summarize the views about women and work that Slaughter (2015) and Sandberg (2013) promoted in Biese's reading. What is the meaning of "opting out" and "opting in"? What are the consequences for the women? And for the feminist movement? Refer to Friedan's "problem with no name" in the 1960s. How is this related to the opt-out revolution? The readings raise questions about womanhood, motherhood and feminism. How are these notions discussed in the articles? In what ways are these different from the second and third wave discussions? (refer to course readings) The notion of intersectionality is integrated in discussions of the third wave but it.