Sep 19, 2026 · 39 min · 10 segments
Beth runs a Helen Andrews argument that the “great feminization” — institutions quietly becoming majority female — is what actually turned them woke, then stacks it against the Lindsay Clancy verdict…
And there were only seven revolutions on this list because this was only the greatest and most earth-shaking ones.
And right there, between the fall of communism and the invention of the internet, was something called the Great Feminization.
that is not a phrase that a lot of americans know but future historians may well rank it as having greater importance than almost any other revolution on that list the great feminization is very easy to define it refers to the increasing representation of women in all of the institutions of our society but as simple as it is to define it's very difficult for those of us on the other side of that revolution to fully grasp its significance The first thing that most people fail to understand about it is how unprecedented it is in human history.
There have been many societies that have been feminist to one degree or another, in which women have been queens and owned businesses and held positions of authority that commanded the respective men.
But there has never been a society in which women hold as much political power as they do today.
Think of all of the parliaments that have ever existed, every legislature in every country in every century.
None of them has been, as ours is, one third female.
The idea of a female chief of police would have seemed very strange even to many early feminists.
And yet today, the police department is led by a woman in the largest city in America and in the city in which we are now standing.
Law schools today are majority female.
Law firm associates are majority female.
Medical schools are majority female.
College faculty are majority female.
And the white collar workforce overall, workers with college degrees, a majority of them are women.
These are, in many cases, very recent developments, with the tipping point having occurred only in the last five to 10 years.
And that is the other common misconception about the great feminization.
People tend to think of feminism as something that occurred back in the 1970s.
But it took several decades to go from token representation to approximate gender parity.
The first woman on the Supreme Court was appointed in 1981, and in that year women were 5% of the judges in America.
Today, there are of course four women on the court, one justice away from a female majority, and women are 30% of the judges in America, 40% of the judges in the state of California, and 63% of the judges appointed by President Joe Biden.
So from the first woman on the court to a likely female majority on the Supreme Court is probably going to be a span of about 50 years.
And the exact same trajectory over the same timeline can be seen in many other professions.
And there were only seven revolutions on this list because this was only the greatest and most earth-shaking ones.
And right there, between the fall of communism and the invention of the internet, was something called the Great Feminization.
that is not a phrase that a lot of americans know but future historians may well rank it as having greater importance than almost any other revolution on that list the great feminization is very easy to define it refers to the increasing representation of women in all of the institutions of our society but as simple as it is to define it's very difficult for those of us on the other side of that revolution to fully grasp its significance The first thing that most people fail to understand about it is how unprecedented it is in human history.
There have been many societies that have been feminist to one degree or another, in which women have been queens and owned businesses and held positions of authority that commanded the respective men.
But there has never been a society in which women hold as much political power as they do today.
Think of all of the parliaments that have ever existed, every legislature in every country in every century.
None of them has been, as ours is, one third female.
The idea of a female chief of police would have seemed very strange even to many early feminists.
And yet today, the police department is led by a woman in the largest city in America and in the city in which we are now standing.
Law schools today are majority female.
Law firm associates are majority female.
Medical schools are majority female.
College faculty are majority female.
And the white collar workforce overall, workers with college degrees, a majority of them are women.
These are, in many cases, very recent developments, with the tipping point having occurred only in the last five to 10 years.
And that is the other common misconception about the great feminization.
People tend to think of feminism as something that occurred back in the 1970s.
But it took several decades to go from token representation to approximate gender parity.
The first woman on the Supreme Court was appointed in 1981, and in that year women were 5% of the judges in America.
Today, there are of course four women on the court, one justice away from a female majority, and women are 30% of the judges in America, 40% of the judges in the state of California, and 63% of the judges appointed by President Joe Biden.
So from the first woman on the court to a likely female majority on the Supreme Court is probably going to be a span of about 50 years.
And the exact same trajectory over the same timeline can be seen in many other professions.
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