The sentence "I do not regard as empty rhetoric the claim that women’s battles are for all of us" can be said to be an example of understatement.
Explanation:
The statement given above is uttered by Gould through which he means that the battles fought by women are not merely limited to the issues of women but also to the issues of blacks and poor.
He adds that to build an ideal society, what the white men should learn is respecting the women.
