Women I Follow: #1- Elisabeth Badinter

"It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me." - Yuan T. Lee

 

Elisabeth Badinter, a French intellectual, author, philosopher, historian- and a very rich lady. 

 What she's about:

.... Badinter freely concedes she was a “mediocre” mother to her own daughter and two sons. The Conflict blasts the return to all things natural that Badinter argues is rolling back hard-won freedoms for women. She thrashes “ayatollahs of breast-feeding” who she says magnify “the tyranny of maternal duty.” She bashes cloth-diaper zealots, cosleeping, and epidural-free deliveries. She trashes the dogma of maternal perfection, arguing it ultimately deters would-be mothers. Instead, Badinter suggests fostering “part-time motherhood” is key to boosting fertility. An 18th-century-history buff, she credits a heritage of nonchalant mothers for France’s curiously high birthrate today.

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