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Feminist and Under Lockdown

Most American women identify as feminists — but what does it matter if we’re all stuck at home?

Jessica Valenti
GEN
Published in
3 min readJul 17, 2020

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Young mother holding her newborn baby in the kitchen while the father works on his laptop in the foreground.
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It’s an irony perfectly matched to the horror of 2020: The majority of American women now describe themselves as feminists, right as they’re being pushed out of the workforce and back into the kitchen.

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Jessica Valenti
GEN
Writer for

Feminist author & columnist. Native NYer, pasta enthusiast.