Highly educated, highly motivated, highly sexed and highly strung? You may not be the bitch some say you are, sister dearest. You could be a brand new breed of woman. So argues British professor and cultural fire-starter Alison Wolf, whose new book The XX Factor is threatening to tear apart what many believe as gospel when it comes to the battle of the sexes.
Wolf believes the sexual revolution has spawned a relatively new being which she calls the "Alpha female". Affluent and successful, the Alpha's fast-living world is that of powerful, influential professionals – she holds jobs that only men used to have.
That she exists at all represents a tectonic shift in male/female relations, but those who assume other females are benefiting from her ascendancy are wrong. The evidence suggests the dramatic gulf between alphas and less fortunate females is actually growing. Alpha sisters are doing it for themselves.
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