Well at least The End of Equality acknowledges the failures of feminism

Only 38 per cent of women graduates from Harvard Business School work full-time. Half the Princeton graduates Belkin interviewed left their top-rating jobs, and the numbers of full-time mothers caring for children increased 13 per cent in less than a decade.

Feminists tend to write off successful professional women if they happen to be conservative and/or pro-family (Margaret Thatcher was never a feminist icon). Thus Summers dismisses successful columnists such as Bettina Arndt, Angela Shanahan, Miranda Devine and Janet Albrechtsen; they cannot figure in the feminist pantheon because they are pro-family. Successful career women have to be left-wing to be considered feminist role models.

This is reminiscent of the joke told among conservatives: one feminist says to another, "I have good news and bad news. The good news is that the Pope has agreed to ordain a woman. The bad news is that it will be Phyllis Schlafly."

Cheer up, Anne, it took realists more than 70 years to defeat Marxism - and the malady still lingers on in places like China and Cuba. Gender feminism emerged in the '60s, so you probably have another 30 years to sell your books before realism prevails.