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SUMMARY: What if an unintended consequence of the feminist movement was to make women feel inadequate? Barnard College president Debora Spar argues the expectation that women can "have it all" actually sets them up for failure. Jeffrey Brown talks to Spar about her new book, "Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection."
JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): "Women of my generation got feminism wrong, seeing it as a route to personal perfection and a promise of all that we were now expected to be. Because we could do anything, we felt as if we had to do everything."
So writes Debora Spar in her new book, "Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection." Spar is the president of Barnard College in New York and former professor at the Harvard Business School.
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