CONTACT: Holly Hall Carter, 813.787.0143
Holly.carter@enlightenedwomen.org

Conservative women’s book club hosts traditional tea parties on campuses to celebrate its fifth anniversary by encouraging young women to embrace their femininity.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA—The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania recently released a groundbreaking report finding that women’s happiness has been declining since 1972.  One group of young women is doing something about this—but not in typical radical feminist fashion.  How?  By forming book clubs and taking tea.

On Tuesday, Sept. 29, the Network of enlightened Women (NeW) celebrated its fifth year of educating young women on college campuses by hosting Traditional Tea Parties.  The goal is to encourage women to embrace their femininity and traditional values in order to ultimately reclaim their happiness.

TIME Magazine said NeW is a “…fast-growing campus alternative to the Feminist Majority and the National Organization of Women…” and “…NeW is catching on across the nation.”

“Articles in The New York Times, Huffington Post and the National Bureau of Economic Research are citing decreasing levels of female happiness,” said Holly Hall Carter, NeW Executive Director. “NeW is challenging this trend by encouraging women to embrace who they are as women instead of promoting misguided notions that sexual liberty and single-minded careerism will bring happiness.”

NeW Chapters, including those at the University of Virginia, University of Florida, Arizona State University and University of Kentucky, will celebrate NeW’s fifth birthday by hosting “A NeW Way to Take Your Tea.” NeW’s birthday will be an opportunity to reflect on the group’s positive impact on college women. NeW seeks to serve the needs of women left abandoned and confused by feminism.

NeW aims to address the issues that are important to college women by providing an alternate voice to the radical feminism taught in college classrooms. Through open discussion of books, NeW tackles the problems with feminism today, including the negative effects of the campus hookup culture, the pressures of single-minded careerism and the disregard for gender differences. NeW offers positive alternatives.

For more information about NeW, please visit our Web site at http://www.enlightenedwomen.org.
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