I love Jane Caro. Her wit, intelligence and not so gentle mockery of trolls on Twitter keep me laughing most days.

But I didn’t love this book as much as I wanted to.

Like Clem Ford’s Boys Will Be Boys, this is Feminism 101 and I realise I am not the target market for this book. I am well versed in feminism, it’s history and the impact of legal changes on both mine and my mothers generation. I understand what the sweeping policy change of the Whitlam government did for Australian women.

Jane, I really wanted to love this. But while reading I wanted more information and suggestion solutions for the women this book was written for. The baby boomer women walking that fine line between relative comfort and abject poverty. I wanted more intersectionality. I wanted more about the impact of the current political environment on those same women, and I wanted you to make at least one mention of how much worse Aboriginal women have it compared to white women. You recognise your privilege, but you seem too removed from those of your generation who are struggling.

Solid 3 stars.