Millennial women are ditching feminism, or are they?

Studies have shown that millennial women are skeptical of the "feminist" label, but does it mean that they're not fighting for equality?

The old guard feminists, like Gloria Steinem, accuse young feminists of gravitating toward Bernie Sanders, for example, because of boys. Madeleine Albright said there's a "special place in hell" for women who don't support other women.

Amy Richards, of the Third Wave Foundation, and Julie Zeilinger, writer behind the FBomb blog, asked the question: Is this type of hard rhetoric luring young women in or chasing them away to from the feminism tent?

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