Whenever I talk to young women about feminism, it usually falls on deaf ears. To most of them, feminism was just some movement when women burned their bras and fought for women’s rights. The details escape them. But what these women know, or think they know, is that they owe their lives to the women (i.e., feminists) who came before them. After all, that’s what they’ve been told over and over and over again.

It’s a lie. Technology, labor-saving devices, and reliable birth control are what liberated women from the taxing work of child care and household maintenance. It was men, not feminists, who invented these things.