Dagger Twists For Louise Story
Last fall Louise Story, Yale ‘03, wrote a New York Times front-pager claiming “many” young Ivy League women planned to set aside their careers to raise children. She received a public spanking from other journalists, who lashed her for crying “trend”; from feminists, who accused her of rolling back the movement 40 years; and even from her own sources, who insisted she had omitted contradictory evidence.
And now, the nail in the coffin: A survey conducted by Yale’s Women’s Center finds that undergraduate women have no plans to put parenting over work, or at least no more so than men. The sampling methods sound a little sketchy (they surveyed many more women than men, and it’s unclear how self-selective the groups were), but far less so than Story’s (ignoring inconvenient evidence, using vague phraseology to fudge pool size, using the word “many” a dozen times).
That’s gotta sting. Shivved in the back by your own Eli kind. Reminds us of the time some punk undergrads wrote a thesis debunking ours, and — hey, Louise, trend story idea!
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