Linda Basch is certainly correct that the entry of so many women into the labour force has been good for the economy, good for society and good for women themselves (I would add that it has been good for men as well). But she is wrong when she implies that full-time mothers have made an unworthy choice.

The world badly needs a responsible, reality-based women's movement.

Equity feminism is a great American success story.

By the numbers, women have largely achieved equality in the U.S. For those who want to continue the fight, there's plenty of work left to do abroad.

Women do not have an assigned place. In free societies, they choose where they wish to be. For at least five millon women in America, that happens to be in the home as full-time mothers. What is wrong with that?

What happened to the "equity feminism" bequeathed by our feminist foremothers?

It isn’t easy to attract 2,000 people to a conference on women’s rights. But Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of Newsweek and the Daily Beast, carried it off. On March 8, she filled an auditorium at Lincoln Center in New York City with mostly high-powered professional women and kept them enthralled for three days.

CEDAW contains many worthy and indeed noble declarations, but its key provisions are 1970s feminism preserved in diplomatic amber. Releasing those aged provisions in 21st-century America would be strange at best, and at worst they could seriously compromise the privacy, well-being, and basic freedoms of Americans.