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The Lipstick Proviso: Women, Sex, and Power in the Real World

By Karen Lehrman
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By Karen Lehrman
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Many women today prepare for a big meeting by reading a stack of folders and applying lipstick. They order their male colleagues around, then wait for those same men to help them on with their coats. They have higher-status jobs than some of the men they date, yet they never call men socially or ask them out.

What's going on? Why such seemingly contradictory behaviors? Have women completely failed feminism—or has feminism failed them?

In The Lipstick Proviso, Karen Lehrman—hailed by the New Y...

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