Feminist activist Gloria Steinem may not have coined the phrase, “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,” but she did popularize it. And Brookings Institution scholar Richard Reeves correctly identifies the sentiment as “the goal of that wave of the women’s movement.” But just how independent of men do most women really want to be?

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