Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

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This quote suggests that young feminists have been mistakenly led to believe that the significant progress made by women over the past four decades is solely the result of the feminist movement in the late 1960s and '70s. The quote implies that this attribution is false and that other factors have played a significant role in bringing about the enormous changes in women's lives.

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