Emily Esfahani Smith takes on feminism in her op-ed on the controversy surrounding Susan Patton’s advice to female Princeton students. Patton suggested in a letter to the Daily Princetonian they should try to find husbands before graduation.
The letter caused an uproar among feminists on the left, but Emily argues that finding a relationship does not have to come at the expense of a succesful career. Patton’s advice echoed what her mother told her as a junior at Dartmouth.
If she, a strong, caeer-oriented feminist–who, with my dad, sacraficed a great deal for me to go to college–was telling me to pay more attention to my romantic life, then what did she know that I didn’t?
Emily’s op-ed appears in The Wall Street Journal. You can read the entire article here.