Excerpted from the Encounter Broadsides series Women in 21st century America live five years longer than men; face an unemployment rate that is over a full percentage point lower; are awarded a substantially larger share of high school diplomas, BAs, MAs, and Ph.D.s; and show lower rates of incarceration, alcoholism and drug abuse.

Contrary to what feminist lobbyists would have Congress believe, girls and women are doing well.