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Kiss those chocolates and roses goodbye, ladies. If you are a student at one of the 500-plus colleges that have signed on to the “V-Day 2002College Initiative,” you’re in for a very different kind of Valentine’s Day experience. This February 14, feminists want you to cast off those fusty old romantic trappings and claim Valentine’s Day as a feminist holiday. In that spirit, they have renamed February 14, “V-Day”—and with apologies to our readers, we report that the “V” stands for “vagina, anti-violence, and victory.”

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Dr. Hewlett began researching her book when asked by the Harvard Business Review to interview successful women of the “breakthrough generation” who profited from the Equal Rights legislation of the 1970s. She interviewed ten successful women—including Diane Sawyer, Donna Shalala, and Jessie Norman—and rather surprisingly found that all ten of these highly successful women, rather than expressing satisfaction at their unequivocal success, were regretful and childless. (more…)