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Podcast: The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
Episode: Have Women Ruined The World? Helen Andrews on The Great Feminization
Description: Less than 24 hours after her Compact essay, "The Great Feminization," set off a thousand group texts, writer Helen Andrews joined to talk about what she means by "feminization," why the 2020 moral fervor looked the way it did, and how workplace culture shifts when women become the numerical majority. We also compare "agreeableness" with the kind of conflict that actually moves ideas forward (and where each belongs). In this episode we discuss: How Helen defines "the great feminization" and why she thinks it explains contemporary "wokeness" What changes when institutions tip female—journalism, academia, law, nonprofits <...