Before we start the debate, what can we all agree upon regarding this issue?  Are many of the advances in equality and civic rights a positive outcome of the feminist movement?  Have good things come from the debate already.  To be sure that much of the debate revolves on what goals and means to those goals are appropriate, but we don’t live in the same world of a hundred years ago.

To develop this question of agreement, consider this TED presentation by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.  a renowned Nigerian novelist, she grew up in the university town of Nsukka, Enugu State where she attended primary and secondary schools, and briefly studied Medicine and Pharmacy. She then moved to the United States to attend college, graduating summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State University with a major in Communication and a minor in Political Science. She holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins and a Masters degree in African Studies from Yale University. She was a 2005-2006 Hodder Fellow at Princeton, where she taught introductory fiction. Chimamanda is the author of Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the 2007 Orange Prize For Fiction.   She was named one of the twenty most important fiction writers today under 40 years old by The New Yorker and was featured in the April 2012 edition of Time Magazine, celebrated as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. She currently divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.