Declaration of Independence
By Catherine Redfern | 1 October 2006, 18:28
You’re female, successful, single, and prefer your life that way. So why are you still seen as an object of pity? Abby O’Reilly argues that women are still put under immense pressure by friends, family, and the dominant culture to ‘bag a man’.
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