r turning down a more conservative path "in which women would adopt a softer, more 'feminine' pose" or down a more progressive path where "women would yield more authority." In the same passage, Faludi writes:
. . . Women can act. Because there is really no good reason why the '90s can't be their decade. Because the demographics and the opinion polls are on women's side. Because women's hour on the stage is long, long overdue. Because, whatever new obstacles are mounted against the future march toward equality, whatever new myths invented, penalties levied, opportunities rescinded, or degradations imposed, no one can ever take from the American woman the justness of her cause (460).
In analyzing the 1980s, Faludi argues that the "backlash publicists" of the media have created a "myth" about women in the workplace a
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