matriarch of the conservative movement, phyllis schlafly, is back with a new book. in it, she examines the role feminism played over the last four decades. her conclusion? tomorrow l feminism made women less happy. >> "the flipside of feminism" shows the other side of feminism people never hear from the media or in high school and college. feminism teaches young women to think they are victims of an oppressive patriarch. that is so unfortunate. american women are the most fortunate class of people who ever lived on the face of the earth. >> in the last 40 years, women have entered the workforce in greater numbers and made strides in education with women now outnumbering men on liberal arts college campuses. women's involvement in politics increased with hillary clinton becoming the first woman to win state primaries in a presidential race. but schlafly, who teamed up with her niece, suzanne venker, to write the book, says those achievements are not due to feminism. >> i worked my way though college at a great university and got my degree in 1944 - that was long befo

they decided to get together, strong women, matriarchs, and decided there were going to build it all up. >> that happens around this country all the time by other committees. i want to be respectful, but i feel like what we are being told is you know, maybe this what is interesting to me. what i am hearing is you're siloed. the latino community with all of our complexities and all the work we are doing -- a whole bunch of things i want to react to, but we do not see ourselves as silos. we went to a small community in texas and took charge and went back into ourselves, and it is manifest destiny. we are part of a larger construct in this country. and i wish that we could go round with the 50-plus million and say, i wish i could do it, high, all of you. this is the way you are all going to lead your lives and these are going to be your values and attitudes and morals and this is the way you are going to push for. destiny as hispanics i made the united states. but it does not work that way. we are way too large, there are way too many factors. when we had this conversation and 20 years

the matriarchal society that the typical husband, a woman boss, inadequate, money terrified and the typical wife and nagging blog. this was in taiwan and rhetoric that was around and you know what was so pervasive that friedan evin incorporated and some of it in her riding including the totally repugnant and now discredited notion that overly devoted monster in their sons into homosexuals and of course she used it to turn the discourse on its head and say in order to avoid this we should actually let women have some interests of their own. but the lack of respect for mom's is what permeated the culture, and the lack of rights for homemakers i think was on a modern women. in 1963 only eight states gave a wife any legal claim to her husband's earnings for property. the other 42 she supposedly had the right to be properly supported but what was so, give the house that such leeway when one enterprising kansas woman sued in court to get her well off husband to install running water in her kitchen, the kansas supreme court rebuffed her in all but four states the man had the right to decide where

we've long known that in the majestic world of elephants, it is the matriarch who guides the herds.t now we know how skilled they are at leading. researchers tested a herd's reaction to different lion roars. lions are an elephant's most dangerous wild predators. with male lions being the most dangerous. when scientists blasted the sound of a male lion's roar, not a female, it was the oldest elephant, a 66-year-old named joyce, who could best detect the danger. and herd the other elephants into a tight protective group, which increases their chance of survival. grandma led the way. scientists say it's the older female's vast life experience that gives them these skills, plus, since they're too old to bear children anymore, they pay greater attention to group defense. so, learned from the elephants, and take care of those old ladies. your life may depend on it. john berman, abc news, new york. >> always listen to grandma. and that is our report for tonight. don't forget, "gma" first thing in the morning. and diane sawyer returns right here tomorrow night. along with made in america. c

we also have latinos for the most part have a female dominated culture and the mother as 9 matriarch, extremely strong, driving the family. >> and i kind of heard you say that women play a strong role in terms of that muslim community and are maintaining that marriage and therefore, the children have some advantage there. >> yes. but what i wanted to mention is what sonny said was very important because we, the muslim community, considers itself to be a model community in the united states. so the perception of itself is very high so the motivation is also very high. however, we are at the opposite end of the indian community, for instance. we always have to disprove the negative. so that is having a major setback for us in terms of institution-building. so we're constantly having to disprove that we are not future terrorists, that we really are not foreigners, you know, we belong here. so that's having some sort of a negative affect on. but that also makes us retreat back into the family. >> into the family. >> and the community. so it's making the community stronger. >> but are you

mother mac is the matriarch of the family today is the grandmother out there who is the matriarch out of texas and thank you for bringing the thomas family with you today. the historic chamber, talking to the president, many of you haven't been in this chamber from 1810 to about 1859, 50 years but this is where all the great debates took place. all of the great debates. honestly you don't hear the webster d dates. they all took place in this historic chamber. as i mentioned the majority leader or the republican leader is right on the other side of the doors, and you hear the hundreds of people coming in here because it's the door, the hallway and then it's the door and the desk and then as much knows you hear all the long hundreds of people coming in here indeed the thousands are relief to the respect to this room as the seat of democracy, the upper level of our congress it represents freedom around the world and that reminds me of what kind of makes this place work and that is the staff, it's the team of people who give their time very quietly, silently, tiger leslie to serve not jus

we also have latinos for the most part have a female dominated culture and the mother as 9 matriarch, extremely strong, driving the family. >> and i kind of heard you say that women play a strong role in terms of that muslim community and are maintaining that marriage and therefore, the children have some advantage there. >> yes. but what i wanted to mention is what sonny said was very important because we, the muslim community, considers itself to be a model community in the united states. so the perception of itself is very high so the motivation is also very high. however, we are at the opposite end of the indian community, for instance. we aays have to disprove the negative. so that is having a major setback for us in terms of stitution-building. so we're constantly having to disprove that we are not future terrorists, that we really are notoreigners, you know, we belong here. so that's having some sort of a negative affect on. but that also makes us retreat back into the family. >> into the family. >> and the community. so it's making the community stronger. >> but are you separa

. >> reporter: cbs said it's open to more mediation but the ma matriarch of the family fears in the endll be told to sit on it. tuz it make you angry? >> i have such low expectations. >> reporter: from people? >> from the business. i'm not angry at all. ♪ >> reporter: meredith, conspicuous in their absence are the show's other big stars, henry winkler and ron howard. the cast members think their contracts were worded differently although henry winkler said he supports his fellow cast members. ron howard had no comment. meredith? >> i'm angry for mrs. c. lee cowan, thank you very much. coming up, a teenager who spent the past six months faking her own pregnancy will explain why she did it. >>> up next, a rare glimpse at the royal wedding gown collection, right after this. ♪ oh oh oh ♪ just love me ♪ oh oh oh ♪ just hold me ♪ oh oh oh ♪ just kiss me ♪ oh oh oh ♪ just want me -♪ lono-v-e ♪ love, love, love we expect a lot from our cheese. why did the cook get arrested? i don't know. he was caught beating an egg! [ laughs ] a cheese monger, a dairy farmer and a duck walk into this... wait a

we've long known that in the majestic world of elephants it's the matriarch who guides the herds butow skilled they are at leading. in a new study researchers tested an african elephant herd's reaction to different lion roars. lions are an elephant's most dangerous wild predators, with male lions being the most dangerous. when scientists blasted the sound of a male lion's roar, not a female's, it was the oldest elephant, a 66-year-old named joyce, who could best detect the danger. and herd the other elephant into a tight-protected group which increases their chance of survival. grandma led the way. scientists say it's older female's vast life experience that gives them these skills. plus, since they're too told bear children anymore, they pay greater attention to group defense. so learn from the elephants and take care of those old ladies. your life may depend on it. john berman, abc news, new york. >> see, that is good advice. >> that is. >> keep that in mind. true across all species. >> especially true for the ladies and especially if it's the grandma. >> it's true. >> i listen to