Japan’s New Female Leader Faces Tired Feminist Critiques

It’s as predictable as a sunrise. A conservative woman reaches a position of power or influence and is immediately attacked for supposedly undermining the “true” interests of women, as these are defined by the left.

In the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher promoted an entrepreneurial revolution and private sector recovery in Britain that lasted for more than three decades, which undoubtedly benefited businesswomen too. But noted feminist Germaine Greer sniffed that Thatcher’s individualism was antithetical to feminist solidarity.